Hofburg
Sprawling palace complex of courtyards and wings built up over seven centuries of Habsburg rule.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Hofburg in Vienna follows Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the shy Bavarian teenager who arrived as a reluctant bride in 1854 and spent decades resisting this palace's suffocating court life through fasting, hours-long rides and tightly laced corsets. It picks up her story again in Geneva on an ordinary afternoon in September 1898, and traces what the Sisi Museum here still keeps from that day. Look for her corset and travel case behind the glass as you listen.
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