Belvedere Palace, the Baroque summer residence of the Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach family, is situated on a hill south of Weimar in the middle of a spacious park with an orangery and a pleasure garden and maze. Belvedere Palace has been a museum of 18th century arts and crafts since 1923, displaying exquisite porcelain from the Weimar ducal family.

Duke Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach had a Baroque summer residence built on a hill south of the town. The complex is considered one of the most important projects of the ducal master builder Gottfried Heinrich Krohne. Originally used as a hunting lodge, Belvedere Palace was developed into a pleasure palace with pavilions, clock and cavalier houses and a landscaped park. Since 1923, the palace has been a museum of 18th century arts and crafts, providing an insight into the life of the court in the late Baroque and Rococo periods.

The palace park was laid out by Duke Carl Friedrich as an English landscape garden with wide, picturesque views. The park features fountains, sculptures, a rose berceau and an artificial ruin of the large grotto. Carl Friedrich had the Russian garden laid out for his wife Maria Pavlovna as an almost exact copy of her garden in St. Petersburg. Originally, the palace was surrounded by a strictly regular baroque garden.