Triumphal Arch

About this audio guide

This guide to the Triumphal Arch on Innsbruck's Maria-Theresien-Strasse turns on eighteen days in the summer of seventeen sixty-five, when Empress Maria Theresa's family lived through a royal wedding, and soon after, an emperor's sudden death. It follows what became of the stone gateway she had already ordered built for the celebration. The arch still faces two very different directions today, each carved to tell its own half of the story.