Day 10 - Vienna Hofburg to House of Music
Vienna Pass? ✔️ FFP2 Mask? ✔️ Vaccination Proof ✔️ Time for a day of history and art. What a day! The Hapsburgs ruled for some 600 years. Plenty of time to continuously scale up beyond imagination. Vienna houses not only Hofburg where the Kaiser conducted business, but also Schönbrunn and Belvedere castles. We began at the Hofburg. First stop in Hofburg was the Imperial Treasury. We had to see the emerald. THE 2680 carat emerald, a gift in 1661 from Prague. Some gift! Which wedding anniversary gift year is emerald? Oh, 20th. Missed my chance. Onward to the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History). Our primary interests resided on the classical art floor which is divided into two regions by artists' origins: Nordic and Romance. On the Nordic side the best known artists were well represented. Rubenesque figures abounded. (A little more delicious bread, cake and beer and I'm sure I'll be modeling such a figure myself.) We were delighted b...