
The Ring: Empire, Republic and Power
You start on a huge square that only exists because Napoleon's troops blew up part of the city walls as they left.
What city was born when the walls came down, and who broke with tradition?
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You start on a huge square that only exists because Napoleon's troops blew up part of the city walls as they left.

At the Opera House, the first great building on the boulevard, you hear how the Viennese called it a sunken crate, what that cost its architects and everything it has lost, and on the Ring, the letter with which the Emperor ordered the walls to be torn down.
The big squares can make you feel you ought to hurry. Vienna rewards looking at façades and allowing a proper pause; combine its compact old centre with transport when changing areas.
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