{"id":2625,"date":"2016-05-23T00:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2016-05-23T00:47:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:47:47","slug":"imperial-vienna-and-the-belvedere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Vienna and the Belvedere"},"content":{"rendered":"

The streets of Vienna today are not quite as busy due to an important Presidential election today, Sunday.\u00a0 It will indeed be interesting to find out if the “far right” gets elected due to the increasing frustrations from the Austrians with immigration issues.\u00a0 The opposition is the “far left” green party.\u00a0 The historical “moderate” party candidates were eliminated in the elections last month.
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\nThe first place we visited today was the Imperial Crypt at a Capuchin Church where there is still a cloister run by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.\u00a0 The crypt is intended for members of Austria’s former Habsburg dynasty, who have been laid to rest in the crypt since 1633 (149 Habsburgs to be exact).\u00a0\u00a0 Today, the Capuchin friars continue their customary role as the guardians and caretakers of the crypt along with their other pastoral work in Vienna.\u00a0\u00a0 We were very surprised that the burial place of emperors is down under a church that is very modest, located on a side street with traffic, shops, restaurants and cafes surrounding it.\u00a0 Walking past the church, one would never think that the Habsburgs were down under!
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\nOnce inside, the crypt (aka Capuchin Crypt) is certainly not grandiose.\u00a0 As we passed among the sarcophagi, some were incredibly intricate works of art, some were fairly simple.\u00a0 It was like walking through history.\u00a0 The extraordinary details on these burial vessels in unreal.\u00a0 It was well worth the visit to see the last resting place of the Imperial family.\u00a0 One Habsburg member was interred as recently as 2011.
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\nOur next stop after lunch, was a 2-mile trek to the Belvedere Palace.\u00a0 The Belvedere Palace consists of two Baroque palaces, the upper and lower Belvedere, lovely gardens with decorative tiered fountains and cascades, Baroque sculptures and intricate wrought iron gates and the Palace Stables.\u00a0 It also houses the Belvedere Art Museum.\u00a0 The palace complex was built as a summer residence for Prince Eugene Savoy.\u00a0 The prince never lived at this magnificent palace; but just used the palace to store and display art!\u00a0 We thought this palace was far more impressive than the Schonbrunn Palace that we visited yesterday; and, we could easily move right in!\u00a0 The palace has a wondeful display of artworks, especially Klimt, Gustav and Picasso.\u00a0 Klimt’s famous painting “The Kiss’ is also on display here. \u00a0 All in all, the Belvedere is a beautiful place with extraordinary architecture.\u00a0 \u00a0We think it is one of the “must-see” places in Vienna.
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Imperial Crypt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of the many coffins – quite ornate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A common theme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of the largest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St. Stephens with knitted art hanging from the ceiling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Belvedere Castle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The yard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Belvedere Castle fountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Russian Soldier Memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St. Charles Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St. Charles Cathedral Tower – very different<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Only brick church that we have seen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vienna Opera House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The streets of Vienna today are not quite as busy due to an important Presidential election today, Sunday.\u00a0 It will indeed be interesting to find out if the “far right” gets elected due to the increasing frustrations from the Austrians with immigration issues.\u00a0 The opposition is the “far left” green party.\u00a0 The historical “moderate” party … Continue reading Imperial Vienna and the Belvedere<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Si9J-Gl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}