Unlike Vienna's other royal residences, Hofburg is like a city within a city. Sitting on the southwestern edge of the Innere Stadt, the 13th-century palace was the winter residence of the Habsburgs, ...
At Vienna’s Hofburg Palace complex, ground zero of the Habsburg Empire, I’m particularly entertained by its butterfly house, a tropical wonderland on the Danube. In this community of royal butterflies ...
The House of Austrian History wants to open a balcony on Vienna's Hofburg palace to museum visitors. A very different person once stepped onto it: Adolf Hitler. https ...
Until 1918 the emperors of the Habsburg monarchy resided in this huge and magnificent palace complex. Its cornerstone was laid in the 13th century. Since then it has been continually altered, extended ...
Once the winter palace of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, the Hofburg palace is a major cultural centre which houses three museums, offices and a church. These include the Imperial Apartments with ...