The former centerpiece of Buda Castle, Gyula Jungfer’s Art Nouveau wrought-iron main gate, is set to shine once again in its ...

But on the way to find Mozart, you'll almost unavoidably waltz through The Sound of Music. The iconic movie was filmed in ...

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On September 10, 1898, the reclusive Empress Elisabeth of Austria was visiting Geneva under an assumed name when she was fatally stabbed in the torso by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni, who used a ...

The young Sissi wed Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at the age of 16, a marriage that thrust her into formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and found unpleasant. Eccentric and ...

In 1853, when Elisabeth was 15 years old, she accompanied her mother and Helene to Austria to witness her sister’s engagement to their first cousin Franz Joseph I, the Habsburg emperor of Austria.

The last known attempt at external interference in a papal conclave occurred in 1903 when Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria sought to prevent the election of Cardinal Mariano Rampolla.

Married at 16 to the emperor of Austria, Elisabeth—nicknamed Sisi—was a reluctant empress, struggling with royal life and sympathetic to the democratic struggles of the people in her new nation.

Kaiser Wilhelm, Franz Joseph, two imperial egos, each of them were so vain they probably thought this song was about them. [laughter] Okay. The number one hit from 1889 by Johann Strauss, Jr., ...

The Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of Austria's most important painters in the late 19th century. He is considered a representative of Viennese Art Nouveau and his abstract portraits ...

Built in 1876, the neo-baroque hearse was used for five funerals, including Empress Elisabeth, Emperor Franz Joseph and Austria's last empress Zita.

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