The tour in Vienna (2) 维也纳之旅（二）

Belvedere Castle and Danube Tower 贝尔维蒂宫和多瑙塔

23.02.2008 15 °C

Today the weather was pretty nice, sunny and warm, just only a little windy.

今天天气格外晴朗暖和，只是风有点大而已。

After taking the breakfast, we went to visit the Belvedere. It was not far away from our hotel, so we walked there.

吃过早餐，我们前去参观贝尔维蒂宫，由于那里离我们住的酒店很近，所以我们步行过去就可以了。

We started visiting from the Lower Belvedere.

我们先从贝尔维蒂宫的下宫开始参观。

Now we were in the entrance of the Lower Belvedere. It was also a small shop, which selling some souvenirs about the Belvedere.

此刻我们来到下宫的入口处，这里同时也是间小卖部，出售一些与贝尔维蒂宫相关的纪念品。

Passing through the entrance shop, we entered a big marble hall.

穿过入口小卖部，我们来到一个很宽敞的大理石厅。

Next to the marble hall, it was a splendent and magnificent hall. It looked much more nicer than the marble one.

大理石厅的旁边，是间富丽堂皇的大厅，看上去豪华多了。

It is also called the "Golden Room".

这间大厅美其名曰“金屋”。

After visiting the halls, we came to a small private garden, but now it was winter, so the garden looked very empty.

参观完这两间大厅后，我们来到一个私人小花园，但由于正逢冬季，所以公园看上去很空旷。

Now we came to a gallery, at the begining, we did not know that photography was not allowed here, after taking two pictures, we were told that it was forbidden, so we could not take any more.

现在我们来到一个画廊里，起初我们不懂那里不允许拍照，等拍了2张后，才被告知，所以就没法多拍了。

The pictures there were all about mediaeval art.

画廊里的画都是关于中古时期艺术。

After visiting the gallery, we came back to the small private garden again, and walked around.

参观完画廊后，我们再次回到这个私人小花园里四处逛逛。

This is the main entrance hall of Lower Belvedere.

这里是下宫的主要入口大厅。

There is also a Museum of Baroque's Art and there are also a lot of works mostly Austrian artists of the 19th/20th century.

同时这里也是巴洛克时期艺术博物馆，而且奥地利十九/二十世纪的大部分艺术作品也在此馆中。

Belvedere was built for the Prinz Eugen who was the most famous commander military in Austrian's history.

贝尔维蒂宫是为欧根亲王而建，他是奥地利历史上最著名的军事指挥家。

He repeatedly defeated the Turks and French which it made it possible that Austria became a big power at his time.

在欧根亲王所处的时期里，他屡次打败土耳其和法国侵略者，让奥地利成为一个强国。

It was the building of the museum.

这是博物馆的主楼。

We sat down to have a rest.

我们坐下来小憩一会儿。

Now we were on the way to the Upper Belvedere.

此刻我们在通往上宫的途中。

It is the buliding of the Upper Belvedere.

这就是上宫主楼。

Back of my honey, it was a big park of Upper Belvedere. It should be very beautiful, but in winter, we only could see the pond without water.

我老公的身后，是一个很宽广的上宫公园，这里应该是非常壮观的，但在冬季里，我们只能看到没有水的喷泉池。

At the entrance of the Upper Belvedere, you could find many statues.

在上宫的入口处，可以看到许多雕像。

In the Upper Belvedere you could visit the gallery with a collection of 19th- and 20th-century Austrian paintings.

在上宫，可以到画廊里观赏十九到二十世纪奥地利油画珍藏品。

Here was the entrance of the gallery.

这里是画廊的入口处。

There were many beautiful paintings in the gallery, but photograph was not allowed, so we had to take some pictures of the hall.

画廊里有许多美丽的油画，但都禁止拍照，所以我们只能拍几张厅堂里的像片。

Through the window of the hall, we could see the big park of the Upper Belvedere.

透过厅堂里的窗户，可以看到上宫大公园的全景。

Now we had already finished visiting the whole Belvedere, and took some more pictures for the last time.

此刻我们已经结束整个贝尔维蒂宫的参观，在此再最后拍几张像片留影吧。

Good-bye, beautiful Belvedere!

再见了，美丽的贝尔维蒂宫！

After visiting the Belvedere, it was already about 2pm, we still did not take the lunch, so we went to a restaurant directly.

参观完贝尔维蒂宫，已经是下午2点左右了，我们还没吃午餐，于是便直接前往餐馆就餐。

The food in this restaurant was not so bad.

这家餐馆的食物味道还不错。

After eating, I was too tired, and could not continue the sightseeing, then we went back to the hotel to have a sleep, and saved more energy for tonight, because we had an appointment with my friend Dannie.

餐后，我有些疲惫，不想继续观光了，于是我们就回酒店休息，为今晚的约会养精蓄锐，因为我和朋友丹妮事先约好了。

Dannie is pregnant too, but 5 weeks more than me, now it is 33 weeks. Before we came to Vienna, she recommended us to eat famous spareribs, so we made the appointment to take dinner together with our husbands (actually her husband's cousin also came with them).

丹妮也怀孕了，比我早5周，现在是33周了。在我们来维也纳之前，她就推荐我们去吃有名的排骨餐，所以我们就约定好，带上各自的老公一起共进晚餐（事实上，她老公的表妹也一同前往）。

The dinner was very delicious, but my honey and me were not very hungry, because we just finished lunch 4 hours before. Finally we had to ask the waiter to pack the remaining food and took it back to the hotel.

晚餐很丰盛，只可惜我们小俩口儿都不饿，因为4个小时前我们才吃过午餐。最后只得让服务员帮我们把吃剩下的排骨打包带回酒店。

After the dinner, we invited Dannie, her husband and his cousin to visit the Donauturm together. They were very happy to go with us, because they had never been there too, and really wanted to see the beautiful night scenery of Vienna in the revolving restaurant.

餐后，我们邀请丹妮他们三人一起去参观多瑙塔，他们很乐意地答应了，因为他们也都从未去过那里，也想坐在旋转餐厅里观赏美丽的维也纳夜景。