What to see in Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein
Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, is a town with a dynamic attitude, located near the right bank of the Reindeer and guarded from the summit of Mount Gaflei (1485 metres). It has just over 5 thousand inhabitants and its center essentially revolves around two streets: Stadtle e Aulerstrasse, where most of the monuments are concentrated, including the Town hall, the town hall, which dominates the square of the same name.
On the Stadtle they overlook the Parish church nineteenth-century with neo-Gothic architecture, the Government Palace built at the beginning of the 900s and the Liechtensteinisches Landsmuseum, il National Historical Museum which, from prehistory to today, tells everything about the principality, with its fabulous collections of ancient weapons, coins, ethnographic documents, goldsmith's artefacts, sacred art and various finds.
Not far away, housed in a building called Englenderbau, the Art Gallery of the Principality appears, which exhibits in rotation the masterpieces belonging to the National Art Collection and those from the private collections of the Princes, with numerous works by masters from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century. In another wing, the same building also houses the Postmuseum des Furstentums Liechtenstein , where you are left speechless in front of the very rich collections of stamps from the Principality, sorted by theme and subject.
Once these monuments and museums have been exhausted, all that remains is to focus on Castle of the Princes of Vaduz, an architectural element that gives a Vaduz un fairytale touch: perched on the cliff overlooking the town, it shows off the lines of a stately residence, the result of the profound changes it underwent between the 500s and 600s, despite the original medieval layout dating back to the XNUMXth century. Princes usually live there, which is why it is not open to tourists.
