Imperial Vienna: Austria's capital marks 150 years of its famous Ringstrasse boulevard

Amere 150 years ago, on 1 May 1865, the youthful Austrian Emperor, Franz Joseph I, officially opened Vienna's Ringstrasse, the broad, tree-lined boulevard that encircles the medieval core of the city. It was built on the land of the city walls which had repelled the Ottoman Empire's furthest advances into Europe in 1529, and again in 1683. But they were no longer needed by the relatively peaceful 19th century.

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