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Tucked just below the Pegasus fountain, the Zwergerlgarten is one of Salzburg's oddest and oldest treasures. This Baroque dwarf garden was laid out around 1715 for Prince-Archbishop Franz Anton von Harrach, its grotesque marble figures carved from the pale stone of the nearby Untersberg to amuse an archbishop's court. Around 1811 the Bavarian crown prince Ludwig found them too ugly to bear and had them sold off and scattered, and only much later did the city hunt them down and bring the survivors home. Beside them winds the green rose arbour, the Rosenhuegel, a leafy pergola of vines and blooms. Together they form the postcard Salzburg that millions picture, and the exact paths where Maria and the von Trapp children come dancing through in Do-Re-Mi, patting the dwarves and racing up the arbour steps, in the one city on earth that largely shrugs at the film it starred in.
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- 1715 year — The Dwarf Garden was laid out for Prince-Archbishop Franz Anton von Harrach, making it one of the oldest in Europe
- 17 dwarves — Marble figures stand here today, recovered from an original set of around twenty eight carved from Untersberg stone
- 1606 year — Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich first founded the Mirabell palace and grounds here for his mistress Salome Alt