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 ...

Even if the ball season still seems a long way off in midsummer, preparations are already underway for the next Styrian Ball on 10 January 2025, when thousands of ball guests will once again dance in ...

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, ...

If you're feeling like this winter is particularly cold and grey, you're not exaggerating. It's been one of the darkest, cloudiest in decades.

Slow, slow, quick, quick, NO! Having spectacularly failed to master the waltz, I am now doing the same with the foxtrot my dance partner is patiently trying to teach me. My footwork is pretty poor but ...

A plan to reinstall a controversial statue of former Vienna mayor Karl Lueger at an angle after renovation has sparked ...

”Hot ticket” is the name of the game for what is dubbed the Sunday morning ”Mass of the Vienna Choir Boys.” It has been that way at the Hofburg Chapel for as long as anybody can remember. Like an ...