Schloss Mirabell, Salzburg

In the west wing of Schloss Mirabell is the marble Grand Staircase of the 18th C. building, with putti and statues by Georg Raphael Donner and his pupils (1726). The Marble Hall (open to the public) is used for concerts and weddings.

The Gärtnergebäude ("Gardener's Building") of the Schloss Mirabell 's Orangery now houses the Salzburg Baroque Museum, exhibiting European art of the 17th and 18th C.

To the south of the Schloss Mirabell stretches the Mirabellgarten (also accessible from the Makartplatz), an excellent example of Baroque landscape gardening laid out about 1690, probably by J. B. Fischer von Erlach, with terraces, marble statues and fountains. The former aviary (Vogelhaus, c. 1700) is now used for exhibitions, and at the southwestern corner of the gardens stands a small open air theater. Adjoining the Mirabellgarten to the west, on an old bastion, is the Bastionsgarten or Zwerglgarten ("Dwarfs' Garden"), with original figures of dwarfs.

To the north the Mirabellgarten extends into the Kurgarten, on the northern side of which stand the Kongresshaus (accommodation for 2,500 people, restaurant), the Hotel Sheraton and the Paracelsus-Heilbad, with an enclosed swimming pool and Kurmittelhaus (spa treatment). The main railroad station (Hauptbahnhof) lies about 1km/0.75mi to the north.