Schönbrunn Palace Unveiled - World's Greatest Palaces - S01 EP1 - History Documentary

[Music] palaces the most spectacular and  lavish homes on Earth [Music]   luxuriously designed for the Royals who wanted the  biggest and the best behind the golden gates of   these Royal Mega structures are incredible stories  waiting to be discovered Infamous monarchs from   history and the artists designers and Engineers  who turned their grand Visions into a reality   these are the most opulent flamboyant and  Innovative Royal residences around the world   this time the home of one of the world's  most powerful Royal dynasties the habsburgs   at their Peak the Imperial family's  branches spread across Central Europe   and for 350 years shunbrun Palace in Vienna  Austria was their main summer residence   it's 1441 rooms have played host to some of  Europe's most influential figures and events   making Sean Brown one of  the world's greatest palaces [Music]   Marie Antoinette Mozart and Napoleon Bonaparte  just a few of the famous names who have walked   the corridors of this breathtaking building  starting Life as a hunting lodge after a major   renovation shunbrun Palace became the home of  the Habsburg monarchy between 1569 and 1918. [Music] Bobby titmash moved from the UK to Vienna over  three decades ago and has never looked back   for me is my life I started to work in Chevron  in 1974 basically as a guide so I've seen the   paintings from the front from the back from the  side I know where the cob ropes are I know Insider   and it's become my my home to a certain  extent it's just become part of my life   and for me definitely something special  holds many engineering secrets in 1744   architect Nicolaus picassi turned the former  hunting lodge into a palace fit for royalty   by designing a clever way of keeping the  servants separate from the Imperial family thank you in this room you can see  one of the largest stoves in shontron   all of the stoves were stoked from the other side  the stove the stoves the servants would have had   to go through that door or through doors like this  into the corridor to get to the back of the stove   and those corridors were used by the servants so  that they could do their work but they were also   used by members of the Imperial family so that  they could bypass the rooms so if the emperor   was standing in one of these rooms you wouldn't be  able to walk through the room even if you were the   Crown Prince you would have to bypass the rim by  using the doors on the left hand side allow you   to compare the system that we've got to that in  England in the stately homes in England you have   a system of upstairs and downstairs so the family  lived in the rooms on the first floor or second   floor whereas the servants were in the basement  Below in we've got the same system but we've got   inside and outside all of the rooms that were used  by the Imperial family have got their windows on   the outside of the building whereas the rooms and  the corridors on the inside of the building have   got their windows on the inner courtyards so all  of the work was done on the other side of these   walls and the family was completely understabbed  Bobby knows all about sunburn's long history   Palace itself dates way back into the  16th century it used to be a hunting   lodge and it wasn't called champlon  originally it was called the Kata book   and there is a legend connected  with that building the implementias   he reigned during the 16th century it said  to have gone hunting in the Vienna woods and   he found a small natural spring and tasted the  water of the spring and said in German my this is a beautiful spring and that spring gave  this Palace that was later built its name   thank you the Imperial family who ruled  over Austria at the time were the habsburgs   their lineage goes back to the 11th century the  habsburgs are one of the oldest royal families   in Europe they're incredibly powerful incredibly  wealthy at one point really they were seen as the   greatest royal family in Europe so what the Habs  first wanted the habsburg's got they start off in   Switzerland as khans of Habsburg in 1020 and by  1276 the ruling Austria and they're very powerful   they always used to say the house of Worcester  never declares war it always marries heiresses   this is part of a process that we call dynasticism  whereby the power and the marriage network   was very important and they were as a dynasty  obviously vastly influential [Music] the original   hunting lodge was destroyed by Turkish Invaders  during their unsuccessful Siege of Vienna in 1683.   Ten Years Later an unknown Austrian  architect named Johann Bernard Fisher   Von erlock was asked to rebuild shunrun  but little is known of his final design we don't know very much about this Palace it  was unfortunately not finished I mean it was   finished in the constructive part it was built  it had a flat roof because this was the Italian   style but not proper for our climate it was  just in hunting lodge but in the dimensions   which is now the dimensions of station from  Palace would remain incomplete until Emperor   Charles VI gifted it as a wedding present to  his daughter the future Empress Maria Theresa   when Charles VI died she came very often here she  had already the family with her children and then   she decided in 1744 to remodel and to reconstruct  the palace towards a really summer residence with   all the needs with all the ceremonial needs and  the purpose to stay here with her family and so   this was the time when when champron Palace  became this what it is nowadays with all the   buildings beside to host all the functions and the  offices of the Court it had to host something like   thousand two thousand five hundred people here  so she needed a big place to cover all the needs developed when she was a child this was  still a hunting lodge and the Imperial   family would have come to this building  to go hunting in the Vienna woods and she   would have spent her childhood years  in shumpron but she was fond of the   building if it wasn't for Maria Teresa  would never ever become what it is today to make her vision a reality Empress Maria  Theresa turned to Italian Austrian architect   Nicolaus picassi he's so incredibly important in Sean Brown's  history because he largely gave us the Sean   Brown Palace that we know today it was such  a huge project and the process of renovation   meant the palace itself had to be extended indeed  enlarged and He was largely responsible for this   the only record that we have is that Maria  teresias mentioned in a letter to somebody   I don't remember that bakassi is an architect who  understands her ideas and he knows to realize it   we can figure out that he was learning by doing  when he dismantled the Insight in the middle the   ground floor it must have been a big risk that not  everything is falling down because he took all the   walls out to make a passage from the courtyard  to the Garden so it was quite risky what he did   the original building only had two floors as you  can see this building has got three floors and   Maria Theresa had everything changed the height  of the rooms on the main floor was approximately   eight meters by reducing this to five meters  picassi was able to insert an entire floor to   shunbrun without modifying the external structure  of the building and the central part of the palace   has not got those rooms and that's where the  ballroom is and the ballroom is the original House architect picassi's plans for schumbrun included  1441 rooms in the 175 meter wide symmetrical   Palace he was influenced by a new style that was  sweeping Europe in the middle of the 18th century   the palace Interiors are mainly in the Rococo  style it's the style which was developed in   the Maria tourism Epoch it's the style of her  period and you can see it all over in the rooms   this is very typical for the period for Rococo  light Lively and asymmetrical it's nearly the   opposite to Baroque Baroque is always very heavy  symmetrical and dark all of the designs that you   can see are asymmetrical whereas if this was a  baroque room you would be able to slice everything   into two halves and it would fit together that  can't be done here it does actually look quite   tasteful to us now in our age of kitsch it looks  very beautiful but then it was really uh excess it   was really a big statement with its sort of extra  ornamentation extra decoration was just perfect   for Palace because everything about it said I  am the greatest I am the emperor and bow down in   front of me so it was really a high expression of  huge amounts of money it was meant to all the eye   oh Maria Theresa was also a formidable  woman on the political scene   during her 40-year reign as empress she  made many reforms across the Austrian   Empire providing education for the lower  classes and modernizing the judicial system Mary Teresa was really Europe's mother-in-law  but she had 16 children and 56 grandchildren   not all of which survived and so she really was  at the Pinnacle of a huge network of family that   was underpinned by political marriages  Maria Teresa was an incredibly powerful   matriarch in a time of great matriarchs she  was the most powerful she was intelligent she   was determined she was an incredible political  power player she was an absolutely indomitable   woman you would never ever want to say no  to her she was I think the greatest empress   she was an extremely strong woman that would not  give away she was of the opinion that God gave her   the rights that she had and only God can take  those rights away from her these are the lens   that she was entitled to and she defended  those dance with everything that she had   she tried to make new alliances with other  countries in Europe Maria Teresa wants to   extend her power through Europe through her  children and she was incredibly effective at   marrying her children into the greatest royal  families of Europe it was all the Habsburg spin   the Habsburg propaganda the one we remember most  of her children is Marie Antoinette who married   into the French royal family and we always see  her as this great French princess but when she   was hated during the French Revolution they  called her the Austrian the Austrian princess   they're obsessed with her being a foreigner and  Mary Antoinette that was an amazing coup for   her she had married in to the French royal  family she was the future queen of France Marie Antoinette has gone down in history as  the epitome of French aristocracy during the   country's bloody revolution of 1789 but she  began her life at shunrun as a little girl   named Maria Antonia over here you can see  Maria Theresa's second youngest child her   name was Maria Antonia better known as  Marie Antoinette she married the king of   France through the 16th and was beheaded on the  guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution Marie Antoinette remained stoic up until the  very end the strength of her mother Empress   Maria Teresa seemed to be imparted in all 11 of  her daughters [Music] all of the daughters of   Maria Theresa except Marie Christine they almost  haven't seen their husbands before the marriage   they just had paintings portraits of them to have  an idea of what the future husband is looking like   there is a sentence documented of Marie  Carolina who was married with the king   of Naples and when she met him she wrote  in a letter I was surprised he was less   ugly as I supposed but more  stupid than he should be one of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband  Francis Stephen of Lorraine's additions to the   grounds of the palace is now one of Vienna's  most popular attractions with over 2 million   visitors per year Gerhard heindel has  worked at shunbrunzu for over 20 years   so we are now in the heart of Champions rule in  the central Pavilion it's part of the Baroque   architecture we have in this Zoo dating back to  1752 including some of the old animal houses in   the administration building but this is the very  heart of champron so this is the place where the   Emperors have been to watch the animals and  where they celebrated some family affairs the zoo was the brainchild of Francis Stephen  who wanted it to be a symbol of the Habsburg   power and wealth it was state of the art and  the first half and until the second half of   the eighth Adventure it was a must-have  it was a representative thing perhaps   programs were one of the ruling dynasties  of Europe and they had to have something we don't know really what kind  of animals were there but in   literature it's transported that it  were mostly water birds or other birds   we think that Francis Stephen and his wife  also must have had monkeys and periods and   something like this then we know about sheep and  goats exotic ones also deer and also a reindeer and it wasn't just animals that Maria Teresa  and Francis Stephen were interested in the Gardens at sunbrun were full of exotic  plants and trees from around the world when   it came to building a winter home for the rare  Flora the empress once again turned to architect   Nicolaus picassu the result was the impressive  orangery which is now managed by Peter hosak   their artery was finished around 1756 because the  Emperors are married teresia that wanted to have   a storage for these wonderful plants that they  collected all over the world within the years   and and they wanted to have a storage area and  they also wanted to have a heatable storage area   because the plants would Otherwise Die when it's  the outside of the winter so they built this this   wonderful building which is one of the longest  actually I think this is their longest orange   with a 189 meter length it's a fantastic  architectural building the huge orangery   uses an ancient central heating design known as  hippocost it's a system that dates back to 350 BC it works by burning wood in  a furnace under the floor and then allowing the hot air to rise  through Hollow bricks in the walls this ensures the temperature inside the orangery  is perfect for plants during the harsh Vienna   Winters first of all of course this wonderful  heating system that I'm sitting on right now which   is the the hippocus type heating system which  you know from their Romans and this system is   installed here back then and still operating and  still working and still in use these days as you   can see it's quite cold in here so when it freezes  outside they put all the woods that they collect   in the Park still up to this day and to put it  in this heating system to heat up the whole room   in the winter time it can have up  to 14 15 degrees Celsius here it's   fresh it's crisp it's a lot of oxygen  little humidity and it's it's just nice the orange Ray now hosts daily classical  concerts where the shundrum palace Orchestra   performed the music of one of Austria's most  famous Sons composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   the child Protege first performed here in  1762 and will always be linked with the palace   Mozart's father Leopold Mozart was very conscious  of his son he was very knowledgeable of Music at   the young age of five or six years and  Leopold then took his son to different   cities in Europe and introduced his son  to members of the royal families and one   of those families was the Imperial family in  Vienna Maria teresia and her husband Francis   and a concert who plays in the so-called  mirror room in in 1762. he was playing the   Pepsi chord for the empress and his father  Leopold presented him as the wunderkind   Young Mozart was a hit with the Imperial  family they took the place by storm Maria   Teresa clapped and clapped and she picks him up  and put him on at near her party reached her put   his arms around an egg and gave her a big kiss  this is the story we don't really know if it's   true but it's a cute little story and uh and  I think we should keep this this kind of story   because I'm sure that the five-year-old  kid would do something like that [Music]   stories of Mozart's first performance at the  palace have become folklore Mars had is said to   have tripped over as he went into the room he fell  to the floor and the Imperial family was sitting   on the other side of the room watching waiting for  the musicians to start and little Marie Antoinette   she was only about two years older than Mozart she  ran over and then picked him up which is something   that's a no-go that's something that members of  the Imperial family would never do should never do   but that young say eight-year-old Marie Antoinette  helped Mozart to his feet and this little boy then   turned around and said you're so sweet when  I get older I'd like to marry you and I think   that would have been better for both of them it's  amazing the moment of history when you think that   Mozart would have met Marian Antoinette there  what must they have thought of each other and   obviously she would just be facing the crowd to  him but two of them to go on to have these great   incredible lives arguably we might say two of  the most famous people of 18th century Europe   were there together in the same room listening  to Mozart play and be such a musical genius [Music] 240 years after Mozart first played at  the palace another famous face performed in the   orange ring in 2001 former U.S President Bill  Clinton was attending a Garner event at shunbrun   so it was a dinner and after the dinner there was  a chair spin playing one guy from the American   company came to me and said can Mr President play  and I personally picked the saxophone and put it   in the corner it was ready and then I went to him  and said Mr President would you like to believe   the band and he looked at me and he couldn't  believe it and said well do you have a saxophone   he said sure but was the 42nd President of the  United States in the same musical league as Mozart   he was fantastic you did a really really good  job he played for like 45 minutes so for us it   was a big thing because we made pictures  and it was in the newspaper everywhere [Music] hosting political dignitaries that  shunbrun was also essential for the habsburgs   in the 18th century during Maria Theresa's  reign Austria's Allegiance with France held   great importance the two countries Allied  joined the Seven Years War which was being   fought across Europe between 1756 and 1763.  victory for Austria over Prussia at the Battle   of Colin in 1757 led to the building of one of  shunbrun's most beautiful structures the gloriet   the impressive Monument was designed by  local architect Johann Ferdinand hetzendorf   on hohenberg in 1772 stood atop a 60-meter high  heel the imposing gloriet took three years to   build and is considered the first classical style  building in Austria we're at the top of the hill   so this used to be a part of the Vienna woods  but when the Gloria was built at the top of the   hill was flattened and they started to build the  Gloria and it was finished in 1775. but it was   built to commemorate Austria's victory at the  Battle of Colleen so a type of an architecture   part of the gloriet was destroyed by the Allied  Forces during the second world war and restored   soon after in 1947. there were two Air Raids  one in October 1944 and the second Airaid was   in February 1945. and in February 1945 they  were trying to hit the military installation   that was built in 1938 by the German Third Reich  some of the bombs fell short of their target or   most of the bombs fell short of their target  and 270 bombs landed in the grounds of Shenron   one bomb hit the main building then one bomb  hit the left hand side of the gloriettes   and completely destroyed one-third of the gloriets  so if you're talking about the left-hand side   of this building that's new if you're talking  about the right hand side then these are the old   decorations just five years after the gloriet was  originally finished in 1775 so was Maria Theresa's   Reign at shunbrunn she died in 1780 she was only  63 years of age but after Contracting smallpox   in 1762 she deteriorated she became very big she  couldn't move she needed to be carried back and   forth in a sedan chair they even lifted her from  one floor to the other she couldn't climb stairs   but she would have seen this building for the last  five years over her life definitely she was proud   she'd made an achievement she'd  created a majestic complex that   showed what power she had and how Mighty she  was symbolizes the might of the Habsburg Empire by 1793 relations between France and Austria  had soured Napoleon Bonaparte seized power   in 1799 after the Fallout from the French  Revolution and was intent on conquering Europe   the Napoleonic wars were a problem for Austria  and the problem for some promise time went on   the austrians won a major battle near Vienna  the Battle of Aspen where they lost a major   battle shortly afterwards the so-called Battle  of vangelam and that led to Vienna being occupied   by the French and the Austrian Emperor was  obliged to let Napoleon use half of the palace   as his residence so to speak so Maria Theresa's  rooms the 18th century room so the back of the   palace virtually the best streams that we've  got were used by Napoleon the emperor Francis   the first of Austria had a cunning strategy to  broker a peace deal with the diminutive General   he married off his daughter the Napoleon  Napoleon's second wife was Maria Luisa   which brought him a little bit of help from his  son-in-law his son-in-law wouldn't harm him as   much as what he would have done had he not driven  his daughter in marriage to the French emperor in the Habsburg family they have also read  this tradition to make compromises to make   marriages that brings you together maybe  with your even if your enemies I mean this   is a tradition that Maria Theresa  followed and her precedes followed   so mirroring was just always a political  strategy of the Habsburg monarch [Music]   this was Napoleon's study this is where  Napoleon worked in 1805 and again in 1809   the people that came to see the French Emperor  came into that room where they would have been   able to speak to the emperor but if the emperor  wanted them to go to his study they would have   been here in this room this is for instance  where the Treaty of shambron was signed in 1809.   after the signing of the treaty where France  imposed harsh diplomatic sanctions on Vienna   Napoleon was conducting drills in the  grounds of the palace watching on was   a disgruntled civilian with murder on his mind  Friedrich stabs was a German and he did not like   the idea of being occupied by France and they  thought the best way to get rid of the threat   to Germany would be to kill the emperor so he  was standing in the courtyard of champron with   a roll of paper and in the role of paper  he hit a dagger and then marched towards   the emperor and saying your majesty your  majesty I'd like to show you my petition   and then the officers stopped him shortly before  he got close to the emperor and found the dagger he was brought to the study where  Napoleon was in ancient prawn   and Napoleon said to have asked pritek stabs if I  forgive you for what you've done what would you do   when friedriched up said if I have the chance  then I'd kill you and that was definitely the end   he was taken and then the fire  and squat did everything else it was an act of defiance that could have  changed the course of history across Europe   Schumann is the site of a great what if  in history and the what if his what if   Napoleon died the great Napoleon would have  been executed in everything we know about   French history about Napoleon's war with  entirety of Europe would have been changed by 1848 Napoleon had been defeated and Austria  had a new emperor Franz Joseph the first   he chose sunbrun as his favorite residence and  shared the palace with his wife Empress Elizabeth   of Austria known affectionately as Cece often  compared to Princess Diana CeCe became a popular   figure across Austria and Hungary Olivia lexsidel  is the curator of a museum at Vienna's hofberg   Palace dedicated to the former empress it was very  special I think she was so different in her time   she was emancipated she was strong she was shy she  was lovely but she criticized a lot so maybe it's   this different in her character between an easy  person and a difficult person that makes her so   so interesting CeCe was just a teenager when she  arrived at children CeCe was a little princess of   Bavaria but she was the cousin of the emperor of  Austria of France Joseph and when he fell in love   with her so she got the chance to have this love  match and she came here when she was only 15. as   a bride she had to come before to Chevron Palace  so she arrived here and everything was strange   she didn't know where to go what to do this was  very very difficult for her when she did marry   Franz Joseph she wrote only two weeks after the  wedding in a poem that's very poignant Freedom   thou has to turn from me and she felt as if she'd  become completely Bound by the position but as her   mother ludovico said one does not send the Emperor  of Austria packing so she really didn't have much   choice and I think the fact that she made this  incredible marriage to what really was the   most eligible Royal Bachelor of the 19th century  surprised her more than it did anyone else [Music]   one of the lasting legacies from Franz  Joseph and Cece's time at shunbrunn is   the Magnificent Palm House the home  to the Imperial Botanical collection   Daniel raw hour has been the head  Gardener at shundrun for 15 years plans to build the Palm House were started around  1860 when the old greenhouses were rotten down so   heavily that they needed to be rebuilt and then  it took quite long to make the Caesar Francis   invested the money we know about 15 sketches  different ways how to design the Palm house   and all 15 were presented to the Caesar and the  Caesar said well no I don't like this I want it   a bit different Franz Joseph finally decided that  if he was going to build a palm house it would be   the biggest and the best In 1855 the Bessemer  process had revolutionized steel production   it was now cheaper and available in larger  quantities architect Franz Sagan Smith   chose to use steel instead of iron when  designing the state-of-the-art structure   he's a weenies local he also worked then on and  Incorporated a lot with Railways he made many   Railway Bridges and he knew how to work with this  new material with steel because not many people   were skilled in this he did his job very properly  and the Very Special architectural way he found   and this is also why our Palm House first it  was built 50 years later than the Kew Garden   Palm house looks a bit lighter is that all the  carrying massive iron construction is put outside   so it is like a frame around and the glass  construction is hung into it the work on the   Palm House took two years and 30 million Gordon  were invested this was quite a lot of money for   this time but still less than the architect  thought that it would cost the 113 meter long   and 28 meter high Palm House took two years  to build and opened in 1882 100 years later   modern day engineering attempts to improve Sagan  Schmidt's design were unsuccessful [Music] in the   original building there were airing openings in  the wall and in the 1980s they were closed because   they said like cold air from outside comes in but  now we know that it was an airing for the glasses   that there is not so much condensed water that  is dropping down and a few years ago there was   a special airing system installed this has a  special filter and in the original building it   was just an opening slit in the wall where the air  thrives through and up the glass and did it and in   the 80s really really thought that they they know  everything and and did quite some mistakes [Music]   the emperor behind the Palm House Franz Joseph  and his wife CeCe had four children together   three daughters and one son the heir to the throne  Rudolph born in 1858 the Crown Prince Rudolph was   a person with a lot of fantasy he was a liberal  thinking person and for the court in Vienna he was   as we call a persona non grata so nobody wanted  him to influence politics then his wedding was not   very happy with Stephanie from Belgium he had a  daughter with her but it was not the big laugh so   he used drugs he had lots of Mistresses and all  that led to a terrible tragedy what we call the   tragedy of Maya Ling where he committed suicide  and killed the young mistress Marie vetchera   so that was something terrible for the  Catholic Court here you have to mention that   the murder committed by Rudolph and his  subsequent suicide on the same fateful night   the 30th of January 1889 was devastating for Cece  and Franz Joseph he was very strong in that time   he was the first one who got the information  and she was the one that gave the terrible   news to Franz Joseph and she was the one that  supported French Joseph in the first days weeks   and the moment he started to work again and to  have his normal life she started to travel that   was her way to come over this terrible tragedy  she started to travel a lot after rudolf's death   because she said when I'm away then I'm on one  side alone and on the other side I can go where   I want to go and I can meet only the people I  want to meet and I can think about lots of things   her troubles took the 60 year old CC and  her lady in waiting to Switzerland in 1898.   she would never return to shuntron again   I was in Geneva and she had no bodyguards in  that moment because she often refused to have   them thinking that she was not important she's not  doing politics she's a woman defenseless nothing   will happen but in Geneva there was Luigi lucani  a young Italian who had a terrible life before   he suffered because he was poor and he  wanted to make a sign against rich people   he observed both women because she and her Court  lady were dressed in black and he didn't know   who is now Cece the left one the right one so he  looked at them he watched them and when he knew   who CeCe was then he run to her with a file and  he really made it with a strong push in her heart thank you and then they brought her back  to the hotel hotel where she died   so it's very traged again I think it almost  broke poor old Emperor a son committing suicide   and a wife stabbed to death the austro-hungarian  Empire mourned for their beloved Cece   thousands turned out to see her funeral  cortage on the 17th of September 1898.   people compare her to Diana because of the  problems she had on court because of all the   critics here Diana died very young very young  in the accident since it was assassinated and   in the end this is what made her really be a  myth today nobody knew her when she was older   but in the end the the last moment to make  really a myth out of CeCe was her assassination   it was the death of Cece's son Crown Prince  Rudolph that set off a chain of events that   would eventually put an end to the Austrian  Imperial family Emperor Franz Joseph had lost   his direct successor his brother Carl Ludwig  died and his nephew Archduke Franz Ferdinand   was killed in Sarajevo which signaled  the beginning of the first World War when Franz Joseph died on the 21st of November  1916. his great nephew Carl the first and wife   Sita became the last emperor and Empress to  live at chandram Palace Carl relinquished   participation in the administration of the state  on Armistice Day the 11th of November 1918. you can't talk about an end of in Dynasty with  Carl you can talk about the end of the monarchy   here because Carl and Teeter had to leave Vienna  then because they were asked to participate in the   parliament as politicians but they they said  no that's impossible so they officially never   abdicated therefore they had to leave Austria  and Carl died in Madeira 100 years after the   death of the final Habsburg Emperor the palace  lives on as a museum which has been opened to   the public since the 1960s even in the modern  world the scale and the might of shundrun and   its 500 acre grounds continue to amaze people  from around the globe chambron is definitely   one of the most beautiful palaces in Europe in my  opinion you've got millions of visitors that go   through the rooms and it's getting more and more  and more as the years go by it is one of the best   preserved Habsburg palaces and preserved in the  way that you can still feel the time of Maria   Theresa it's very authentic that's what people say  when they come to Champion Palace that they have   the feeling that the empress left it only some  days ago so we tried to make it very familiar   we often forget how powerful and important the  habsburgs were and when you go to Schoenberg you   see how they were so powerful so feared and no  one ever thought that their great Reign their   great power would ever end and so chambering  to me is both an amazing representation of the   habsburgs and their great power and also  a reminder that power never lasts [Music] thank you [Music]

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Length: 44min 39sec (2679 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 06 2023