Belvedere Castle

Belvedere Castle is situated on a hill just south of Weimar and is surrounded by a spacious park with an orangery, gardens and a labyrinth. The Baroque castle served as the summer residence of the ducal family of Saxony-Weimar and Eisenach. Originally used as a hunting lodge with a menagerie, Belvedere Castle was later refurbished as a “pleasure palace” – a maison de plaisance – with pavilions, a clock house, cavalier houses and a landscape park. In 1923, it was converted into a museum of 18th-century arts and crafts. Exquisite porcelain works that were formerly owned by the Weimar ducal dynasty are still exhibited there today.