Originally constructed from 1696 as a grand hunting lodge, Schönbrunn Palace later became the official Hapsburg summer residence. Under the supervision of Maria Theresa (the only female Habsburg ...
Sitting on the southwestern edge of the Innere Stadt, the 13th-century palace was the winter residence of the Habsburgs, and a center of power for some 600 years. These days, the Hofburg Palace is ...
By far the most impressive sight is the one at the former Habsburg palace, Schönbrunn. "Schönbrunn Palace is a sight straight out of the Baroque era, where you can roam through the expansive ...
If the history of radical nationalism in East Central Europe is read backwards through Bosnia, the two World Wars, and the breakup of the Habsburg, Romanov, and Ottoman empires, it is almost ...