This tour leads through the south and west wings of the piano nobile. You will have the opportunity to travel back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At that time the palace had been used not only by its owner, the emperor Francis Joseph I., but by other members of the Austrian imperial family too. You would be able to hear the sad story of the crown princ Rudolph and his wife Stephanie of Belgium. A touching story of the sister in law to the emperor, the archduchess Maria Theresia of Braganza, or to stand in the exact spot where on 1st July 1900 the heir to the throne, Francis Ferdinand d´Este, married the countess Sophie Chotek of Chotkowa.
A self-guided tour includes a large Baroque stable, a small Baroque stable (converted into a coach house in the 19th century), and three adjacent rooms decorated with period paintings of horses.
This tour leads through south and east wings of the palace including privat and state rooms of the emperor Ferdinand I.
Allowing you to see e.g. the great dinning room, billiard room, imperial bedroom and drawing room and many more.
You would be able to admire original furnishings and decorations from the middle of the 19th century.