Austria — The Dispatches
Vienna
The seat the Habsburgs ran their empire from for centuries, and it still carries itself that way — imperial palaces, gilded libraries, and coffee houses that treat sitting for hours as a birthright. Schönbrunn Palace and its zoo, the oldest in the world at 1752, the Hofburg sprawling through the centre, and Klimt's gold at the Belvedere. Grand, formal, and quietly smug about it.
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St Stephen's Cathedral
Vienna's Gothic cathedral with its zigzag tiled roof.
Austrian National Library
The baroque State Hall — frescoed ceilings, antique globes, and walls of leather books.
The Hofburg
The Habsburgs' sprawling winter palace, a green-domed quarter of the city.
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