Lampedusa's mid-20th-Century novel The Leopard became a bestseller, then a revered film – and is now a lavish Netflix series ...

Sicily had been ruled by the Spanish kings, the House of Savoy, the Austrian Habsburgs and eventually the Spanish Bourbons. The Spanish Bourbons had taken over by the time Naples and Sicily were ...

Vienna, a timeless European capital city, blends royal grandeur with modern vibrancy. From the opulent Hofburg palace halls ...

The Sisi Museum offers insights both into the grandeur of the Habsburgs and into the life ... go check out the Spanische Reitschule (Spanish Riding School) where sugary-white Lipizzaner horses ...

There are plenty of things to see within the Hofburg complex, including the Sisi Museum and the Spanische Reitschule (Spanish Riding ... late 17th century by the Habsburgs, Schönbrunn Palace ...

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the ...

He places the 1565 siege in the wider context of the great-power rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburgs along with their proxies ... Francisco Balbi di Correggio, who served with the ...