A lion roar echoes across the Baroque grounds of Schönbrunn Palace, where the oldest zoo in the world has operated since 1752. Peacocks strut past imperial fountains, and the scent of animals mingles with the fragrance of manicured hedges. Emperor Francis I started this menagerie as a royal collection, and today it ranks among the […]
Slovakia’s oldest zoo opened in 1955 in the shadow of Bojnice Castle, a fairy-tale Gothic castle that looks like it was lifted from a Disney film, and today ZOO Bojnice is the country’s most popular zoo with over 350 species housed across 41 hectares of wooded hillside in the Strážovské Vrchy mountains. Unlike many European […]
