Austria as it is
Austria as it is

Author: Charles Sealsfield

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781289969479

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Austria as It Is: Or Sketches of Continental Courts (1828)
Austria as It Is: Or Sketches of Continental Courts (1828)

Author: Charles Sealsfield

Publisher:

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781436783743

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Austria as it Is, Or, Sketches of Continental Courts, by an Eye-witness
Austria as it Is, Or, Sketches of Continental Courts, by an Eye-witness

Author: Charles Sealsfield

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 56 PRAGUE. CHAPTER III. Prague.'Sitting of the Diet of Bohemia.'Nobility of Bohemia.'Private Theatre of Count Claru Gallas?Musical Conservatorium.'Technical Institution.'Museum. ?University.'The System of Education in the Austrian .Empire'its consequence.'Secret Police. The view of Prague, from the road of Toplitz, is imposing; you descend into a valley extending for five miles, and amphitheatrically rising towards the west: it terminates in a ridge, which runs obliquely the breadth of the whole city. On this ridge stands the imperial castle, an immense front of colossal buildings, seen at the distance of ten miles. You pass through an indifferent suburb, a half-ruined gate, and enter a street scented by numerous kitchens in the front of the houses. It terminates in a Gothic tower, which separates the city from the new town, Neustadt, laid out by Charles IV. Before this tower two streets diverge, from 150 to 200 feet wide. This part of the town is by far the most regular; it consists almost entirely of noblemen's palaces, and some excellent hotels, among which the Schwarze Ross (black horse) holds the first rank. You thence pass, in the company of your cicerone, a hanger- on at the said hotel, (and, by-the-by, your spy, ) through the gate of the before-mentioned tower, a relic of Charles IV. and a street whose buildings bespeak the sixteenth, and its irregular dimensions the twelfth century: it runs out into the great market-place of the ancient city. The city-house, a venerable-looking building of the thirteenth century, before whose portal many a noble head has fallen a victim to ill-planned revolutions against the House of Austria; the stately and ancient architecture of the houses in general, and especially the Gothic church of the Tein, deserve attention. It has t...

Austria as It Is
Austria as It Is

Author: Charles Sealsfield

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2015-08-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781298909657

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The Crossroads of Civilization
The Crossroads of Civilization

Author: Angus Robertson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-08-02

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1639361960

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"From the Congress of Vienna to the Austria World Summit, the city of Vienna has hosted key meetings on peace to climate action. This is a first-class book about Vienna as the crossroads of civilization and as the international capital." —Arnold Schwarzenegger A rich and illuminating history of the world capital that has transformed art, culture, and politics. Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe in the wake of Napoleon's downfall, to bridge-building summits during the Cold War, Vienna has been the scene of key moments in world history. Scores of pivotal figures were influenced by their time in Vienna, including: Empress Maria Theresa, Count Metternich, Bertha von Suttner, Theodore Herzl, Gustav Mahler, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, John F. Kennedy, and many others. In a city of great composers, artists, and thinkers, it is here that both the most positive and destructive ideas of recent history have developed. From its time as the capital of an imperial superpower, through war, dissolution, dictatorship to democracy Vienna has reinvented itself and its relevance to the rest of the world.