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About this book:

Vienna around 1860. A city under construction. Franz Joseph, a young and dynamic emperor, has the Ringstrasse built.
One ­architectural jewel after another glitters around this necklace of stone: the City Hall, the Burgtheater, the Parliament, the Vienna State Opera. Here, too, stands the luxuriously appointed private palace of the Prince of Württemberg. The prince sells his palace, and in 1873 it is converted into a hotel. The Imperial.
Its central location, ­ magni­ficent ­furnishings and first class management immediately make it ­Vienna’s leading hotel, the establishment frequented by officials of state, great artists and inter­national travellers. The Imperial’s outstanding cuisine puts it in a league with the finest restaurants on the continent.
Richard Wagner lived here for weeks. It was a second home to Bismarck. Charlie ­Chaplin thought it the finest hotel he had ever lived in, an opinion shared by the Queen of England.
All Vienna’s most distinguished visitors have ­resided at the Imperial, from state visitor to celebrated tenor. When in Austria, they like to stay in the Royal Suite, one of the most beautiful and ­grandest hotel suites in the world.
This is the history of a unique Viennese institution, from the 1870s to the present day; a look behind the scenes of a hotel which for over a century has never ceased to be one of the finest in the world.

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