The Giants' Hall
Maria Theresa's rococo under Austria's heaviest chandeliers.
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Miniaturised, yes — but western Austria's rococo and its founding tragedy are its own, and its hour falls naturally on the old-town route. For those yet to see Vienna: the elegant prelude.
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Innsbruck's Hofburg is Austria's third imperial palace after Vienna's Schönbrunn and Hofburg: Maximilian's Gothic seat remade in full Viennese rococo by Maria Theresa (1750s) — its colossal Giants' Hall frescoed with the complete Habsburg line under some of Austria's heaviest chandeliers. The route runs state rooms and imperial apartments in their furniture — and the palace's founding tragedy: here Maria Theresa's husband Franz I died suddenly during their son's wedding, his death room turned chapel, his memory made a cult. It is the imperial trio's smallest and quickest — a full hour — its value the position: the garden door faces the Hofkirche, the Golden Roof steps away, the civic trio walked in one morning.
Maria Theresa's rococo under Austria's heaviest chandeliers.
Franz's sudden wedding-night death — the room made chapel.
Rennweg 1, 6020 Innsbruck