ÿþ<head> <title>Yee's Montréal Photo Page</title> </head> <style> <!-- A:link {text-decoration: none; color:#0000ff;} A:visited {text-decoration: none; color:#1931a9;} A:active {text-decoration: none; color:#33aa99;} A:hover {text-decoration: none; color:#44ff00;} A.hl:link {text-decoration: none; color:#00ff77;} A.hl:visited {text-decoration: none; color:#ff0000;} A.hl:hover {text-decoration: bold; color:#00ff00;} --> </style> <body> <table border="0" width ="750" align="top"> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left" width="150"> </td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="600"> <p align="top"> <font size="5" face="arial" color="#33aa99">. Vienna .<br></font> <br> <font size="3" face="arial" color="#33aa99">August, 2004. After a fuzzy memory that resembled a plane ride, I arrived in Vienna. Since I hadn't slept from the festivaling, saying good bye, and packing the night before, I was a bit sleepy, but that wasn't stopping me from exploring Vienna! After hearing all about the wunderbar-ness of the city for weeks from Rob, I finally got to see it for myself. It's a city full of history and culture, so much so that I didn't know whether to start with all the schlosses, or the schnitzels... Luckily I had a good tour guide. I even got to explore some on my own when Rob had to go to work. No camera, but plenty of schnitzel that day! <br></font> <br> <center> <font size="3" face="arial"> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee114_1.jpg"> <br> The Secession, an art museum near Karlsplatz, was a controversial building for its time, as it is much simpler than most everything else in Vienna. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee115_1.jpg"> <br> Grand buildings line the streets just off the Ringstrasse. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee116_1.jpg"> <br> Nifty planters in front of the Secession. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee117_1.jpg"> <br> The Statsoper. The Opera season was over by the time I arrived, <br>but the building is still quite grand. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee118_1.jpg"> <br> A view of the Habsburg's royal palace, the Hofburg. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee119_mod_1.jpg"> <br> The biggest Habsburg of them all... Empress Maria Theresa... mother of the infamous Marie Antoinette... <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee120_1.jpg"> <br> The gates into the official entrance to the Hofburg. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee121_mod_1.jpg"> <br> The Habsburgs were the emperors of first the Holy Roman Empire, <br>then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lived up to it. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee122_1.jpg"> <br> What an entryway. Including a statue... proabably of someone who helped fight off the Turks... The Habsburgs were much better at love than war, and gained most of their territories through marriage, not battle. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee123_1.jpg"> <br> An important man... Emperor Franz I, dressed up as a Roman... <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee124_1.jpg"> <br> Looking back to the gate. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee127_1.jpg"> <br> Musicians breaking it down in the breezeway. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee128_1.jpg"> <br> The dome overhead at the entrance to the Royal Apartments. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee129_1.jpg"> <br> Like Prague, all over Vienna there are statues of mighty warriors <br>beating down on evilings. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee130_1.jpg"> <br> Up close and personal with a fountain on Michaelerplatz. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee131_1.jpg"> <br> Ruins of the ancient Roman town of Vindobona, which were discovered during subway system construction. Inside one subway station is a view into an ancient Roman church that now sits underground. <br><br> <IMG SRC="Vienna/Yee132_1.jpg"> <br> Cafe Griensteidl, where the likes of Sigmund Freud <br>met to discuss the human condition. <br><br> </center> <br><br><br><center><a href="http://www.duke.edu/~yl27/vienna1.html">. on to Stephansdom .</a></center> <br><br><br><center><a href="http://www.duke.edu/~yl27/photos.html">. photos </a>. <a href="http://www.duke.edu/~yl27/photosscand.html">scandinavian summer </a><a href="http://www.duke.edu/~yl27/home.html">. home .</a></center> </p> </td> </tr> </table><br><br>