Unlike Vienna's other royal residences, Hofburg is like a city within a city. Sitting on the southwestern edge of the Innere Stadt, the 13th-century palace was the winter residence of the Habsburgs, ...

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 ...

Nov. 27 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1901, the U.S. War Department authorized creation of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in Leavenworth, Kan. In 1924, the ...

It's been a bad time for palaces. Days after a blaze gutted a large section of Windsor Castle, fire broke out in Vienna's famed Hofburg Palace. The source of the flames, which engulfed the ornate ...

A fireworks attack in Perchtoldsdorf has led to arrests and Austria’s greenhouse gas emissions rose again in 2025, plus more stories from Austria on Thursday.