Ahead of International Women’s Day and on the occasion of the release of her book, Le Pouvoir au féminin, Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche l’impératrice-reine about Maria Theresa of Austria, Elisabeth ...

Maria Theresa was immediately acknowledged as the rightful heir of the Holy Land – at that time spanning much of central Europe, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland – on the date of her birth ...

It was named after Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia from 1740 to 1780. It proudly sits in my small coin collection as one of the most interesting and certainly the ...

It began in 1752 as an exotic menagerie amassed by Franz Stephan, the husband of Maria Theresa (the only female Hapsburg ruler) and the country's Holy Roman Emperor. Today, Vienna's Tiergarten ...

Schönbrunn was one of the first places in Austria to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, back in 1996. A tour will lead you through apartments belonging to Maria Theresa as well as Emperor ...