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Wien.info: Schönbrunn Palace—"Empress Sisi's former summer residence" Schönbrunn Palace: My Way of Telling History (PDF format) Official Vienna city map: Schönbrunn—a far better aerial view, zoomable up to <1m resolution. *Click "Orthophoto" and "Draw new map", then zoom in [there seems to be no direct link].
[3] The architectural style was designed to suggest an ancient palace of mythical Phaeacia. [4] The motif centers on the hero Achilles of Greek mythology, from which the name is derived. Corfu was Elisabeth's favourite vacation destination and she wanted a palace to gratify her admiration for Greece, its language and its culture. [5]
Author Allison Pataki wrote an historical novel about Elisabeth and her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph entitled The Accidental Empress in 2015. [81] Its sequel, Sisi, Empress on Her Own, was published in 2016. [citation needed] The story of Elisabeth is told in Susan Appleyard's 2016 ebook, In a Gilded Cage. [82]
Hermesvilla. Hermesvilla is a palace in the Lainzer Tiergarten in Vienna, a former hunting area for the Habsburg nobility. Emperor Franz Joseph I gave it to his wife Empress Elisabeth (nicknamed "Sisi"), and he called it the "castle of dreams.“
A portrait titled Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Courtly Gala Dress with Diamond Stars (by Franz Xaver Winterhalter). In 1998, [1] Blanchard stole the Star of Empress Sisi, one of 27 diamond-and-pearl hair ornaments worn by Elisabeth of Bavaria, consort of Francis Joseph I, from the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.
Empress Sisi was born into a prominent Bavarian family—in fact, her mother was the King of Bavaria's daughter. ... One of your favorite '90s TV couples had a red carpet reunion last night, just ...
The Kaiservilla in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria, was the summer residence of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi. [1] The mansion is currently the residence of their great-grandson Archduke Markus Emanuel Salvator.
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