Blog category: tomb
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Visiting the Habsburg Imperial Crypt
November 15, 2019
The Imperial Crypt of the Habsburg family lies beneath the Capuchin Church in Vienna, Austria. Today the tomb that receives the most visitor attention is that of Empress Elisabeth, also known as Sisi, the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830-1916). She was assassinated in Geneva in 1898. In 1837, the year that Sisi was born, English writer Frances Milton Trollope paid a visit to the Imperial Crypt. At that time, Emperor Francis I (1768-1835) was the star exhibit. He was the father of Napoleon’s second wife, Marie Louise, who is also buried in the crypt.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte