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Highlights include Austrian Parliament Building, Burgtheater, Crown Prince Garden, Gloriette, Graben and the Plague Column, Heldenplatz.

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  1. Austrian Parliament Building: story on the “Ringstrasse: Boulevard of Imperial Vienna” route

    One disputed ballot will show how a procedural error opened a twelve-year break in the work of the elected chamber.

  2. Burgtheater: story on the “Ringstrasse: Boulevard of Imperial Vienna” route

    The national stage will test who has the right to determine the repertoire during a public scandal.

  3. Crown Prince Garden: story on the “Schönbrunn: Palace and Imperial Park” route

    The finale will tie the garden’s history to the upbringing of the child whose rooms gave this area its current name.

  4. Gloriette: story on the “Schönbrunn: Palace and Imperial Park” route

    Here, the route examines the language of imperial victory through the inscription, military trophies, and stone from a dismantled palace.

  5. Graben and the Plague Column: story on the “From St. Stephen's Church to Hofburg: Who Held Sway Over Vienna” route

    This stop compares the imperial monument to deliverance from the plague with what remained outside the stone version of events.

  6. Heldenplatz: story on the “From St. Stephen's Church to Hofburg: Who Held Sway Over Vienna” route

    The final square shows how a palace, a platform, and the gathered crowd helped present an already completed takeover as a collective decision.

  7. Kohlmarkt: story on the “From St. Stephen's Church to Hofburg: Who Held Sway Over Vienna” route

    A courtly sign and the shape of a chocolate seal will show what price one word in a cake’s name came to carry.

  8. Main Building of the University of Vienna: story on the “Ringstrasse: Boulevard of Imperial Vienna” route

    Here, a walk to a lecture will bring a philosophical community's work to an end.

  9. Main Gate and Courtyard: story on the “Schönbrunn: Palace and Imperial Park” route

    This stop will show how a paid spectacle at the palace staircase led to a reconsideration of access to the emperor.

  10. Maria Theresa Square and the museums: story on the “Ringstrasse: Boulevard of Imperial Vienna” route

    The monument and the paired museums present the completed part of the Imperial Forum, which was never built in its entirety.

  11. Michaelerplatz: story on the “From St. Stephen's Church to Hofburg: Who Held Sway Over Vienna” route

    At the site of the vanished theater, you will learn how a banned comedy nevertheless made its way onto the court stage.

  12. Neptune Fountain: story on the “Schönbrunn: Palace and Imperial Park” route

    This stop links the ceremonial sculpture with the engineering without which water could not have reached the garden’s main basin.

  13. Palm House: story on the “Schönbrunn: Palace and Imperial Park” route

    This stop takes the route into the age of iron and glass and shows how three climates were divided beneath one roof.

  14. St. Peter's Church: story on the “From St. Stephen's Church to Hofburg: Who Held Sway Over Vienna” route

    Here, an imperial promise gives way to the money of laypeople, who paid for the church and for their own commemoration.

  15. St. Stephen's Church: story on the “From St. Stephen's Church to Hofburg: Who Held Sway Over Vienna” route

    This is where a dispute begins over whether a princely residence can become a church capital without its own bishop.

  16. Stock im Eisen Square: story on the “From St. Stephen's Church to Hofburg: Who Held Sway Over Vienna” route

    The small niche provides a transition from an urban legend to the actions of the man responsible for this building.

  17. Swiss Gate and Schweizerhof: story on the “From St. Stephen's Church to Hofburg: Who Held Sway Over Vienna” route

    The old courtyard will restore to the Hofburg the appearance of a fortress in which the Viennese once besieged the imperial family.

  18. The Great Parterre and the Marble Statues: story on the “Schönbrunn: Palace and Imperial Park” route

    Here you will see how a shortage of water disrupted a unified arrangement and left only separate mythological pairs.

  19. Vienna City Hall: story on the “Ringstrasse: Boulevard of Imperial Vienna” route

    The city skyline would become a political victory for which the mayor would have to pay.

  20. Vienna State Opera: story on the “Ringstrasse: Boulevard of Imperial Vienna” route

    The finale will show how a director's demands changed the relationship between the stage, the performers, and the audience.

  21. Volksgarten: story on the “Ringstrasse: Boulevard of Imperial Vienna” route

    The garden introduces the first attempt by women in Austria to create their own political association.

  22. Votive Church: story on the “Ringstrasse: Boulevard of Imperial Vienna” route

    An imperial vow will become a church, and the choice of site will link it to the future boulevard.