Charles Garnier was an unknown 35-year-old architect in 1860 when he won Napoleon III’s open competition to design the opera house, beating out nearly 170 others including the famous architect ...

However, numerous Luther statues (38) remain peppered, and untouched, around German cities including the spectacular Luther Monument in Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate designed by Ernst Rietschel and ...

Saying that the heart of the Habsburgs is in Vienna may sound like a poetic expression to embellish a historical fact, but it can be taken literally if one visits the Church of the Augustinians, part ...

Napoleon managed to extricate himself after losing nineteen thousand men in casualties, among them Marshal Lannes; the Austrian army, however, had suffered even heavier casualties—more than ...

In Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1865-1869), Count Bezukhov engages in the examination of the Satanic aspects of Napoleon, calculating through numerical and alphabetic formulas that Napoleon’s ...

The Danube River has flowed from the Black Forest to the Black Sea for millennia, carrying the dreams of empires, traders, pilgrims, and tourists too. Once serving as a natural border for the Celts ...

The stories are downright spooky. ‘Portrait of Jean-Gabriel du Theil at the Signing of the Treaty of Vienna,’ 1738–40, by Jacques André Joseph Aved. | The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L ...

With the fall of Napoleon to the allies, he achieved his goal with the Treaty of Kiel in 1814 and had it confirmed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Norway, of course, had sought an entirely ...

She emphasized on her social media platform X on Sunday, May 5th, that the ceremony for awarding the Rabia Balkhi statue in Vienna, the capital of Austria, has concluded.

Josephine Bonaparte was Napoleon’s first wife. Here’s what to know about the historical figure, including how she died and what her legacy is today.

An engraved scene of people visiting and looking at statues in Madame Tussauds Wax museum on Baker Street, London, circa 1830s. Kean Collection/Getty Images ...