The Hofburg is an unbelievably beautiful palace complex that you have to visit if you're planning a holiday to this most beautiful of city's ,great looking buildings ,pretty gardens ,historic sites ,grand looking statue's and a major tourist destination ,home to festivals,exhibitions and conferences ,it's just a great place to visit and easy to locate on Heldenplatz .

Indeed the Hofburg - or the Imperial Palace of the House of Habsburg - situated today in the historical center of Vienna, was built over several centuries. It was mentioned in writing since the XIII-th century - late 1200's - and this review is about the section facing the Heldenplatz - Heroes Square - and this section is the newest part of the complex - it is from the 19th century. (it was also planned to have a mirror wing on the other side of the Heldenplatz, but never got built and with the start of the WWI and the demise of the Habsburg dynasty it got never built) It is indeed a place/building that has a historical importance over the ages - one of the recent and most important moments was 15th of March 1938 when from the balcony of this building A. Hitler declared the Anschluss (incorporating Austria into the 3rd Reich). Today there several museums that have the home here : - Ephesos Museum - Papyrus Collection - National Library of Austria - Historic Musical Instruments Museum - Court Hunting and Armor Collection. - Vienna World Museum (in the wing closest to Burgring). So for those of you who are into history is a must see place of the Hofburg complex. To enter the museums you pay an entrance fee - and if you get a Vienna Card you have some discounts. For those of you who are into arts and architecture (this baroques palace for sure will be interesting) it is another must see attraction - amongst the many that you need to put on the must see list of landmarks in Vienna. So once the world gets back to normal this will be, again, a place worth visiting.