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Summer Palace 1

Hapsburg Heaven

August 21st 2007
The early morning start was worth getting up for this morning, as we had a palace to visit - the Schonbrunn Palace. We were visiting the summer palace of the Hapsburg Royal Family, which has over 1000 rooms, as opposed to the Winter Palace, which has over 3000! Obviously, we didn’t get to look through all of them, but we did get to see some amazingly opulent sights. Empress Maria Theresa ruled ... read more
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