<p><br> Evoking a past imperial time, a horse-drawn carriage enters Vienna’s Michaelerplatz, site of the Habsburg emperors’ Hofburg Palace.</p>

Michaelerplatz


Evoking a past imperial time, a horse-drawn carriage enters Vienna’s Michaelerplatz, site of the Habsburg emperors’ Hofburg Palace.

Photograph by Georg Knoll/Bilderberg/Aurora Photos

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