First the memorial, soon the movie. And in late September, the tribute concert. Make that extravaganza. In Vienna, on the grounds of the 17th-century Schoenbrunn Palace, once the home of ...

Vienna’s Stadtpalais Liechtenstein, the city palace that launched a revival of Rococo in the mid 19th century, will offer public tours for the first time on Friday after an extensive face-lift. The ...

The splendor and sights of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace can fill an entire vacation in the Austrian city. The lavish Imperial Apartments of the palace seem designed to give their royal residents — who ...

Top of our list for our next visit is the Circus and Clown Museum, only open for three hours a week, on a Sunday. And, though ...

At Vienna’s Hofburg Palace complex, ground zero of the Habsburg Empire, I’m particularly entertained by its butterfly house, a tropical wonderland on the Danube. In this community of royal butterflies ...

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The nearly 900-year-old Austrian castle that was the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s hauntingly beautiful “Requiem,” the last composition he wrote before his death in 1791, is headed for the ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Vienna's opulent Schoenbrunn Palace, the former summer residence of the imperial Habsburg family, will open its doors to tourists looking to spend the night like Emperor Franz Josef ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Vienna's Schoenbrunn Palace is planned to provide the stage for a high-profile tribute to the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson, at the end of September, organizers of the concert said ...