Schönbrunn Palace
Rococo imperial summer palace of gilded state rooms, sprawling gardens and a hilltop Gloriette above Vienna.
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This guide to Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna turns on one room: Napoleon Bonaparte's headquarters bedroom during his occupation of the city, later given to his son, the Duke of Reichstadt, raised at his Habsburg grandfather's court after his father's exile. It follows the young duke's isolation from both parents, a title that quietly buried his birthright as King of Rome, and the father who was exiled to a rock in the Atlantic and never saw him again.
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