JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. VILLA TOSCANA. GMUNDEN/AUSTRIA

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Sunday, Tishrei 28, 5779. October 7, 2018.

Shalom! World.

Villa Toscana, Gmunden/Áustria.



Villa Toscana in Gmunden am Traunsee in Upper Áustria is a castle villa built inn the 19th century. Together with the Little Villa Toscana and Toscanapark it forms na importante building ensemble. The property is located on the peninsula right by the Landschloss Ort and today's Toscana Congress Center. Villa Toscana was built between 1870 and 1877 in the middle of the  large park as a prince's residence of the widowed Grand Duchess of Tuscany Maria Antonie of Naples-Sicily. The real architect was the youngest of her tem children, Johann Salvator. The villa is executed in antique Greek style of a historicist post-classicism. Today it is used by Toscana Congress as a location for weddings and other events.



Toscanapark 
The formally landscaped 88,000m² landscaped Garden is characterized by a beautiful old stock of trees. In 1999, an Upper Austrian State Garden Show took place in the park of Villa Toscana. Since 1 January 2000, the park in the landscape style of the late 19th / early 20th century by the amended Federal Monument Law under protection, as it is one of the most importante historical parks in Áustria. A controversial hotel project in planning. 


Shalom! Aleichem.

Cultural  Support:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz.


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