Summer ReadsViennese Escapes: Schloss Kittsee

... Cecilia Tallis half ran with her flowers
along the path that went by the river,
by the old diving pool

with its mossy brick wall,
before curving away
through the oak woods.

The cool shade of the woods was a relief,
the sculpted intricacies of the tree trunks enchanting.

Once through the iron kissing gate,
and past the rhododendrons beneath the ha-ha,

she crossed the open parkland ...
and came up behind the fountain

and its retaining wall
and the half-scale reproduction of Bernini's Triton
in the Piazza Barberini in Rome.

Quoted from
Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement"
Click on the last picture
to see the Triton fountain in Rome.

Location:
Schloss Kittsee
40 miles southeast of Vienna
First published
6 August 2008


Images
© by Merisi