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Vaduz Castle (German: Schloss Vaduz) is the palace and official residence of the Prince of Liechtenstein. The castle gave its name to the town of Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, which it overlooks from an adjacent hilltop.

The former owners, who were presumably also the builders, were the counts of Werdenberg-Sargans. The bergfried (the keep, built in the 12th century) and parts of the eastern side are the oldest. The tower stands on a piece of ground that is 12 by 13 metres (39 by 43 feet) in area. At the ground floor, the tower walls have a thickness of up to 4 metres (13 feet). The original entrance lay at the courtyard side at a height of 11 metres (36 feet). The chapel of St. Anna was presumably built in the Middle Ages as well. The main altar is late-gothic. In the Swabian War of 1499, the castle was burned by the Swiss Confederacy. The western side was expanded by Count Kaspar von Hohenems (1613–1640).

The Princely Family of Liechtenstein acquired Vaduz Castle in 1712 when it purchased the countship of Vaduz. At this time, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, combined the countship with the Lordship of Schellenberg, purchased by the Liechtensteins in 1699, to form the present Principality of Liechtenstein.

The castle underwent a major restoration between 1904 and 1920, then again in the early 1920s during the reign of Prince Johann II, and was expanded during the early 1930s by Prince Franz Joseph II. Since 1938, the castle has been the primary residence of Liechtenstein's Princely Family. The castle is not open to the public as the princely family still lives in the castle.

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It is the palace and official residence of the Prince of Liechtenstein.

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The "Alte Rheinbrücke" is a covered wooden bridge linking the municipalities of Vaduz and Sevelen.

Measuring 135 metres in length, it was completed in 1901 and is today the only remaining wooden bridge spanning the Rhine. Another wooden bridge was, in fact, erected at the same spot 30 years earlier. However, this required rebuilding due to damage caused by the bridge being raised on two separate occasions while work was being carried out redirecting the Rhine.

After the dam in Schaan broke in 1927, the bridge was raised once again. The bridge, which has a wooden roof, was renovated between 2009 and 2010. Motor vehicles are not permitted to use the bridge, making it particularly popular with cyclists.

This old covered bridge link Switzerland and Liechtenstein over Rhein. It takes about 5 minutes walk to cross, and there is absolutely no immigration formalities. This photo was taken from Switzerland.

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The town hall in Vaduz , the capital of Liechtenstein , was built in 1932 and 1933 according to plans by Franz Roeckle . The building, modeled on a medieval town-plan, has been the meeting place of the municipal council ever since.

In 1931 the municipality of Vaduz took the decision to build a new municipal hall. As a result, a competition was announced in which various architects took part with their own project proposals. In February 1932 the Liechtenstein architect Franz Roeckle finally received the planning order - after several revisions - and in September of the same year the Vaduz municipal council finally approved the plans.

The town hall was opened on November 19, 1933. The construction costs were almost three times the total income of the municipality in the year, so the municipal council decided to rent out parts of the building. In 1984 the last lease - with the Liechtensteinische Landesbank , which had used parts of the town hall as an exchange office - was finally terminated, so that the town hall has only been used for municipal purposes ever since.

The town hall has a rectangular floor plan with an attached tower. With its numerous architectural elements, the building is reminiscent of the heyday of medieval German urban developments.

The building is completed by a gable roof and two lower-lying monopitch roofs , and in the east and west by single-step gables .

On the east facade is a stone carved municipal coat of arms, which was made in 1983. A coat of arms created in 1932 and awarded by the Prince was unplaced from the old location on the northwest facade of the town hall in the 1980s.

The south-east side of the town hall is decorated by a fresco created in 1937 that is attached to the balcony area. It shows Saint Urban - patron saint of the winemakers - who holds the tips of a vine in his hands, which seem to grow up to him on the sides of the balcony door. The illustration illustrates the great tradition of viticulture in Vaduz. Saint Urban was mistakenly represented as Pope.

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Tre Cavalli by Nag Arnoldi

Nag Arnoldi's expressive bronzes show influences of Marino Marini and Pablo Picasso, as well as of pre-Columbian art.

Arnoldi's works have a clear identity. The unique character of the structure of the broken cast area strongly contrasts with that of the partially polished surfaces. Here light, reflection and material dissolution play a very significant role. The theme is the myth of the horse and the human, depicted between joy and pain.

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The parliament lies at the heart of the Peter-Kaiser-Platz square, just a stone's throw from the government building.

After a proposal to create a new parliament building in Liechtenstein was rejected in a 1993 referendum due to its high cost, the Munich-based architect Hansjörg Göritz designed the building which is currently home to the parliament in 2008.

The parliament building, fronted by an imposing square, contains the plenary hall of the parliament, the secretariat, a range of offices for the different political parties represented in parliament as well as the state archives and its own library. Built using over one million bricks, it is immediately recognisable as you enter Vaduz from the south. In 2010 it received the Brick Award.

Göritz was also responsible for redesigning the central Peter-Kaiser-Platz square, named after the famous local historian Peter Kaiser, who represented Liechtenstein at the first publicly and freely elected German National Assembly in St Paul's Church in Frankfurt in 1848.

Together with the government building and the national archive, the parliament forms the government district in Vaduz.

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