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 ...

The Spanish Riding School, part of the Hofburg Palace complex, is one of the most celebrated riding academies in the world. It carries on a 450-year-old tradition of classical dressage (meticulous, ...

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, ...

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 ...