科隆博格城堡

作为哈姆雷特的舞台而闻名于世的科隆博格城堡位于哥本哈根北边赫辛的海岸，赫辛火车站出来就能看到城堡，也能看到瑞典的城市。城堡为了保卫海岸有实际的重要作用，内部没有华丽装饰，非常实在、很求实的感觉。那天天气很好，登上了塔看到海峡及瑞典，觉得非常爽。也看了地下的牢狱，地下非常暗、有点阴凉相当令人害怕，这里有丹麦传说中的英雄Holger Dansk的闭目坐像，据说丹麦一旦发生危机，他就站起来挽救丹麦。

Large park, garden with roaming deers, elks and peacocks. Great place for kids. The castle is ornate with furnishings and gift store.

Catch tram 1 (€4.80 for a 24 hour ticket) from Jakominiplatz or Hauptplatz (If you are staying in the Old Town Centre). It takes around 10 - 15 minutes and one needs to stop at Schloss Eggenberg. Visiting the palace in February one can only walk around the Palace Park & Gardens (Entrance fee for an adult is €2 and it is open from 08:00 - 17:00) this is because between November to March the State Rooms are closed. This means that an hour or so is just enough to stroll along the park and gardens. One surprising find were the considerable amount of peacocks roaming around freely in these gardens.

Schloss Eggenberg is rightly listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, but its location more or less at the end of the streetcar line means it gets light foot traffic, even though it's less than 30 mins. from downtown Graz. The castle is situated in huge, green park with lush gardens, lawns and wandering peacocks. When I turned out to be the only person signed up, I ended up getting a private tour of the castle rooms and the impressive art collection within for a song. In the summertime, the castle is one of the performance sites for the wonderful StyrArte music festival launched by the city's famous early music son, Nikolaus Harnoncourt. It is a place of quiet beauty, worth the effort to get to and explore.

From the outside, it looks like nothing special. But the artwork inside is a fascinating glimpse into the culture. It is so fortunate the art survived the war. The rooms are also impressive. It is an easy trolley ride.

... simply take the tram to get to Schloss Eggenberg within less than 10 minutes, you will be enchanted as you approach the small castle with the large gardens.It is a world heritage site (UNESCO) with italian renaissance architecture with a baroque first floor, rococo rooms, and a renaissance garden. It is the largest castle of Styria, part of the Universalmuseum Joanneum group of museum you can visit with the Graz tourist card (possibility to buy at the Styrian Armoury Tourist Office).There is a very pleasant tour (the only way to visit the castle) that will bring you to the 24 state rooms (24 hours in a day) among them the Planetary room with paintings of the planest and the zoodiac signs, there is also a japanese room covered with silk, the palace church with remnant of rococo style, and of course the garden, not to be missed, with the rose mount, the planetary garden, the master's garden and of course the beautiful peacock that roam majestically on the property.There is also an Alte Galerie, Archaeology Museum and Coin Cabinet (did not visit) available to see and the possibility to eat a cake with "melange" in the beautifull and small pavillion in the garden. This is a nice pause (point d'orgue) in this timeless castle.

A relaxing oasis for adults and kids.... Old trees + roses + rhododendron + all kind of animals.You should spend 2 hours at least to get the real feeling of the place.............

Take a tour if you have enough time. this is a very fancy place with a lot of interesting stories. It is surrounded by a large park with all kinds of animals.

The place to go for art is Schloss Eggenberg, which is on a tram ride from the centre, which is less trouble than it sounds. This is a fabulous seventeenth century country house. You need to take the tour, which goes around the 24 state rooms of the piano nobile. Much of this was painted by Hans Adam Weissenkircher, in stucco framing. Other rooms were decorated in the eighteenth century in rococo style. The English guide (an art history student) was very good at getting across the essentials (important given a lot of rooms were similar) but at the same time was good at responding to questions, which demonstrated that she was very knowledgeable. There is a cute little parasol seat on a mound in the garden, and lots of peacocks. There is also the museum of Graz area old master painters there, so one needs to allow plenty of time.

The only reason to trek out here is the Archaologiemuseum Eggenberger. Where one can find some of the greatest treasures of Western Civilization. The Schloss is a large square block with a central courtyard. It is somewhat like a large city apartment building from the Renaissance. We did not go inside but the courtyard is impressive with four levels of galleries/covered porches. The building is set in a massive 'English Landscape" park - although elevations are pancake flat. There are many massive tree specimens. Between the Great House and the Museum there is a theme garden; The Planet Garden. With some success, the architect attempted to evoke each of the planets in our solar system. See my review of the Archaologiemuseum Eggenberger for more info.

Beautiful gardens, amazing painting pictures, huge rooms are only a few aspect of this very interesting place.The guide explain you the whole history of the Palace, therefore I fully recommend to go for the pay tour, don't stay only in the gardens or you gonna miss several years of world history.If you were in Graz, Austria, don't miss it!

The tour through the State Rooms are well worth the price. The Alte Gallery was also very good. The archaeology museum was a little weak, especially if you have visited other collections. If you collect coins, the collection there is a must-see. If time permits, a walk through the gardens is nice. A good restaurant is located just outside the east entrance..

Easily accessible by #1 tram from the main square (€4.8 for day pass, €2.10 for single trip, buy from machine in square). The guide spoke excellent English and gave a very informative and knowledgeable account of the 24 rooms in the tour in this majestic building. Senior concession available. Palace built for a wealthy confidant of Emperor Ferdinand II and is an expression of his position of power and world knowledge. The mechanisms of the heavens, world history, religion, humanist values are all depicted, as is the calendar (24 rooms, 52 doors, 365 windows etc). It is an astonishing place and must not be missed. The gardens are well kept and make for a peaceful walk.

This Schloss was a short tram ride from our hotel. The gardens were lovely and we were amused by the many peacocks. We waited a while for our English speaking guide. She was well informed and very personable.However the rooms are dark and empty of furniture. We could get no feel for how people lived here.Each room had a unique ceiling painting but after three or so rooms our interst was waning.I attribute my 3 star review perhaps to being tired and to having visited many sites such as this.We are sorry we didn't opt for the Schwatzenegger Museum!!! We are fans and that would have been a one-of-kind visit.

This Schloss was the best one ever, in walking distance from Graz railway station. There was so much to see. I started with the English tour of the State rooms. The design of the house has an interesting history. After a short lunch break in the Pavilion I visited the art galery on the first floor where I saw the most perfectly preserved collection of medieaval paintings along with more up to date ones. 24 rooms in all. A walk across incredible gardens led me to the archeology museum and out into the planetary garden, The entry for me as a senior citizen was just 8.50 euros including all the museums and the state room tour, A really well spent day.