📍Schönbrunner Schlossstraße 47, 1130 Vienna, Austria
1830 – 1916“I was born in the Blue Chinese Salon on the first floor and died in my study sixty-eight years later. Schönbrunn was never simply a palace to me — it was the only home I truly knew. I worked at my desk by five o'clock each morning regardless of season. In those thousands of documents I tried to hold together an empire of eleven nations and a dozen languages, and the baroque gardens kept faith with me through all of it.”
👍 LovedThe baroque gardens in summer — the great parterre seen from the Gloriette, with Vienna visible in the distance
👎 DislikedThe endless audiences, the ceremony, the impossibility of ever being simply a man rather than an emperor
🗺️ Approximate location today
📍 Street view today
Sources: Wikipedia: Franz Joseph I of Austria