Schonbrunn Palace

Magnificent rooms filled with beautiful paintings..My favourite the "Serenade in the Grand Ballroom" to honour Joseph II's marriage in 1760.. Each guest was painted individually. Artistic freedom enabled a cute little Mozart to be painted into the congregation (despite Mozart's first visit to Vienna being in 1762)

A weekend in Vienna - March 2007

March 3rd 2007
We are finally catching up on our blog entries... (and that means I have finally added 3 blog entries all on my own - of Dan's 66, yes I have some catching up to do!) This one is long overdue.... A wonderful weekend in a beautiful city with my gorgeous friend (not to mention wiener schnitzel and sacher torte!) Thanks for a great weekend Michelle x ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more

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