A visit to the Schonbrunn Palace Gardens is a must for visitors to Vienna.

The word Gloriette given on the sign boards fascinated me and I immediately googled.

The Gloriette in the Schönbrunn Palace Garden, Vienna, Austria

A gloriette (from the 12th-century French gloiremeaning “little room”) is a building in a garden erected on a site that is elevated with respect to the surroundings. The structural execution and shape can vary greatly, often in the form of a pavilion or tempietto, more or less open on the sides.

It is one of the highlights of the Gardens is the Gloriette built high up on a hill behind the palace and was the last building constructed in the palace in 1775 as per the plan of imperial architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg as a “temple of renown” to serve as both a focal point and a lookout point for the garden.

It served as a dining hall and festival hall as well as a breakfast room for emperor Franz Joseph I. That hall is now a cafe.

It is quite a steep climb but we’ll worth it for the stunning view. There is a cafe there and has been used since the beginning of the nineteenth century, as a viewing platform.

Today I got the chance

The NYPL nearly 53 million items and 92 locations and is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress) and the third largest in the world.

Its main reading room was contemporaneously the largest of its kind in the world at 77 ft (23 m) wide by 295 ft (90 m) long, with 50-foot-high (15 m) ceilings

The Mc Graw Rotunda

The other rooms