At Vienna’s Hofburg Palace complex, ground zero of the Habsburg Empire, I’m particularly entertained by its butterfly house, a tropical wonderland on the Danube. In this community of royal butterflies ...

Just three weeks before the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 kicks off in Vienna, Austrian Federal President Alexander van der Bellen and his wife, Doris Schmidauer, hosted a special reception. All former ...

Once the winter palace of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, the Hofburg palace is a major cultural centre which houses three museums, offices and a church. These include the Imperial Apartments with ...

Unlike Vienna's other royal residences, Hofburg is like a city within a city. Sitting on the southwestern edge of the Innere Stadt, the 13th-century palace was the winter residence of the Habsburgs, ...