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| Franz Josef's desk at the Hofburg |
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| Imperial Library at the Hofburg |
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| Gardens of Schönbrunn |
From The New York Social Diary:
Our private visits to several of Vienna’s memorable palaces over the next few days began with a tour of the Hofburg Imperial Palace, the sprawling 59-acre complex in central Vienna. The seat of the Hapsburg Dynasty until 1918, it was the birthplace of Marie Antoinette and site of her proxy marriage to Louis XVI with her older brother Archduke Ferdinand standing in for the Dauphin.
A central feature of the Hofburg today is a museum dedicated to a later prominent Hapsburg, Empress Elizabeth the wife of Franz Joseph. An early devotee of physical fitness, nicknamed Sissi, she was a legendary beauty, beloved, and universally mourned after her 1898 assassination. (Read more.)
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