Michael A. Stecker
mstecker@dslextreme.com


 


alte Hofburg, Michaelerplatz:
The Hofburg (Imperial Palace) includes the opulent Imperial Apartments (now occupied by
the president of Austria), the Royal Chapel (where the Vienna Boy's Choir sings at
Sunday mass), the Spanish Riding School, the Imperial Treasury (including religious relics
like one of the nails from the Crucifixion and one of the thorns from Christ's crown), the Augustinian Friars and Capuchin church with the Imperial Crypt of the Habsburg family,
the
National Library and Baroque Prunksaal hall.