The tombs here at the Imperial Crypt range from the extravagant Rococo of Maria Theresa‘s bed, shared with her husband Francis of Loraine — who, though unfaithful, managed to give her twelve surviving ...

Vienna’s Hotel Sacher is a testament to enduring elegance and female leadership. Founded in 1876 by Eduard Sacher, the hotel came into its own under the stewardship of his formidable widow, Anna ...

Married at 16 to the emperor of Austria, Elisabeth—nicknamed Sisi—was a reluctant empress, struggling with royal life and sympathetic to the democratic struggles of the people in her new nation.

There’s more to the place than imperial flair, though – Vienna boasts a thriving artisan coffee shop scene and recent years have seen a wave of new designers leading the city’s sartorial style.

Saying that the heart of the Habsburgs is in Vienna may sound like a poetic expression to embellish a historical fact, but it can be taken literally if one visits the Church of the Augustinians, part ...

This being Vienna, the Mass came with a complete choir and an orchestra, wowing worshippers with the spiritual confidence of Anton Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 in F Minor.

By Joseph L. Garcia, Senior Reporter DURING a trip BusinessWorld took to Vienna in October, the Austrian capital felt like the setting of a fairy tale. Across our hotel at the Neuer Markt square (the ...

The tourist board has created a new app, the Morbid Vienna Guide, to help visitors explore the city’s “very open relationship with human mortality”, but things get dark even in familiar ...

The spectacular Imperial Crypt set beneath Capuchin Church and Monastery serves as the final resting place of 145 members of the Hapsburg family, including Emperor Charles VI, Franz Joseph I, his ...

Landstrasse, Vienna ’s alluringly out-of-the-way third district, has a regal past, most notably defined by the presence of the Belvedere, the sprawling, must-see Baroque complex of museums and gardens ...