Gotha · Altstadt · Germany

Schloss Friedenstein Gotha

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best: morning, spring

grand, historic, cultural

A local would say...

Inside this palace is a 1683 baroque theatre where a stage-changing machine from the 17th century still works — the oldest surviving mechanical theatre in Europe.

An enormous yet gracious early baroque palace built by Duke Ernst I in the 17th century, containing one of Europe's oldest baroque theatres, the Ekhof-Theater (1683), with its original mechanized set-changing device still in working order. The palace also houses an Egyptian collection, an art gallery, a research library of 500,000 books, and atmospheric underground passages.