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Annevoie castle and Dinant

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Continued here Colpach castle and park
Third page Sarreguemines and the faience museum


Vienna




         

St Stephen's Cathedral



The square in front (Stephansplatz)



Relief on the side



Inside the Cathedral




The windows

Tryptichon in the side-nave



Angels under the organ

The Chancel







The Burg and the inner city


The Mozart monument
and Goethe
  



Butterfly-house

The back gate of the garden
and a gate inside

 

The spire of St Michael











Swiss gate

Monument of emperor Francis



 

A lake in the garden

In front of the garden, memento

Behind the Burg is the memorial of the
fight against war and fascism

Exhibition about the fall of the Berlin wall
St Michel is the church of the Burg


and their hearts in the Augustins

Emperor Joseph II

has his statue on Josephsplatz

While the Hasburgs are buried in the Capucins

on Neuer Markt
In the Augustins' church is Canova's tomb of Marie Christine,
Princess of Saxonia
Donnerbrunnen

The Casino
Maltese church


and there is the National Library







"Bellifortis", a military manual



Theuerdank - attributed to emperor Maximilian

Am Hof


The old Arsenal
 

The church on Am Hof





Kärtnerhof


Mural on the wall of the construction authority
The construction authority (left) and the old university (right)



    


The Kohlmarkt



  


The street with the board warning pedestrians of the cart
leads to a nice old Bürgerhaus

    
         At the entrance of the street a        on the side the Orthodox cathedral
         memorial to the clown Augustin, 
Pest column
on the Graben
The Energy fountain
Wind, sum and water
in a courtyard


Liebenberg monument
Johann Andreas Liebenberg was mayor of Vienna during the
second Turkish siege
and had a great role in sustaining resistance



The Ring
and its environs





Opera house

The side of Hotel Bristol on the side of the Opera house
Schwarzenberg square
The Volkstheater
Vienna University
An old convenience

The beginning of Mariahilfer street
The Burgtheater
First established by Maria Theresia in 1741,
to have a theatre close to her palace..
The building on the Ring was inaugurated
in 1888 by Francis Joseph I,
who, however, only visited
the performances when her lover,
Katherina Schratt was playing.


Votivkirche

The "Votive" church (offering church)
was built on the initiative of Arch-prince
Ferdinand Maximilian, later emperor of Mexico
to commemorate the failur of a 1953 attempt
to kill his brother, Francis Joseph I.
A collection among the population
ensured the funds for the building
comeswhich lasted from 1856 to 1879
The "Mariazell" window shows the
Hungarian king bottom right.



Auersperg-palace - Fischer von Erlach


Palaces


The Eszterhazy palace
         


and the Freyung

Porcia palace, opposite the Freyung
The Daun-Kinsky palace beside
and its interior
     
Interior of the Ferstel palace    
   

    


The Hungarian embassy


Close to the embassy: the palace of another Hungarian nobility: Batthyany palace





Christmas in Schönbrunn



Liechtenstein palace: the name of the family
comes from their medieval palace of light stones



Trautson palace

with its cariatides

Palace of justice
The Parliament building

Fountain in fromt of the Parliament



and a lamp post

The side of the Parliament


Pallas Athene in front of the building



In front of the facade: Athene and other sculptures


      Ceasar and in the background Tacitus                 Thukydides
     
Cafés and pubs


Bier and Bierlein

Café Zartl

Continued here