Today was a very busy day! It was our final day in Vienna. This will be a quick post, as we are about to get on the train returning to Warsaw. We wanted to post our final Vienna pictures, as we won't have internet access in Warsaw.
This morning we went to the Spanish Riding School, in Hofburg Palace, and watched the morning exercise of the Lipizzaner stallions! The horses are exercised in the Winter Riding School, which is a very fancy indoor arena.
Afterwards, we toured through Hofburg Palace. We visited three museums in the palace: the Treasury, the Sisi Museum, and the Imperial Private Apartments and State Rooms. Below is a photo from the tour of the Treasury. This is one of the gold dinner services that were used by the imperial family for state dinners.
This is the special Imperial napkin arrangement The secret of how to make this arrangement is closely guarded, and to this day only two people know how to make it. It was only allowed to be used at dinners when the Emperor was present. Now it is only used for dinners with foreign heads of state.
We then walked to the State Hall of the Imperial Library. This is in a different part of Hofburg Palace than the current National Library. The State Hall has the same level of opulence as many of the cathedrals we have visited... you might say it's a cathedral for nerds :)
Our last stop before going on the train was Stadtpark, which is Vienna's City Park.
Now we are on the road again :) We will post any final pictures from Warsaw once we return to Canada at the end of the week!
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