Hellbrunn Palace

phone 82 03 72, fax 82 03 72- 49 31. e-mail: schloss-hellbrunn@stadt-salzburg.at, www: http://www.hellbrunn.at. Manneristic, early Baroque pleasure palace built by Santino Solari (1612-1615) under Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus. Festival hall and Octagon with wall and ceiling frescoes by Arsenio Mascagnis; extensive Baroque gardens with the famous trick fountains, the mechanical theater (1750) and the "stone theater" (first opera performed in the German-speaking world in 1617).