Quite monumental! Impressive witnesses of history
What would St. Stephen’s Square be without its 700-year-old cathedral, Vienna’s theatre scene without the famous Burgtheater, or Michaelerplatz without the Imperial Palace? more...Roman Vienna - In the footsteps of the Romans
Even if all roads didn’t lead to Vindobona, the Roman name for Vienna, it was still an important Roman settlement, more precisely a military camp and civilian town more...A visit to the city’s memory
Dating back to the Middle Ages, the Vienna Municipal and Provincial Archives offer a wealth of fascinating information. Director Ferdinand Opll told wieninternational.at why every document in these archives is a highlight in itself … more...
| Monuments in Moscow: “I shall be loved by the people …”Russia is a country of writers and poets, and the works of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and company have been translated into myriad languages more... |
| A close look at the Hungarian Revolution of 1956wieninternational.at devotes the next part of its monuments series to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and its fateful events. more... |
| Monuments have their destiniesIn the next instalment of our monument series we visit Krakow in Poland to find out about Lenin’s missing foot, an ascetic priest and the long-awaited monument to Józef Piłsudski, the renowned interwar politician more... |
| Romanian monuments – downfall and reconstructionThe series on monuments in our partner countries takes us this week to Bucharest. In the history of the Romanian capital sculptures have often failed to survive changes in power more... |
| Sofia in place of LeninSofia’s history goes back thousands of years. Over the centuries the city has provided shelter for many different peoples. Each of these ethnic groups and regimes has left its traces and added a chapter to the history of the city more... |
| Monuments in Sarajevo – may the flame of Sarajevo burn foreverOur chequered history of monuments takes us this week to Sarajevomore... |
| Belgrade: without Tito, Milošević and StalinIn this instalment of our series on monuments we pay a visit to Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. more... |
