Austria-Hungary . ounty of Sopron, the property ofPrince Nicholas Esterhazy, which stands high onan outcrop of rock and has fortified walls all are twenty-one country seats belonging to theEsterhazys, ranging from a specimen such as this,through fine palaces, to huge modern are acres of gardens, miles of forest, a famousracecourse and parks without end attached tothese mansions. There are other names also rival-ling that of Esterhazy, such as that of thePrince Festetics, and many another. But we havewandered far from Vienna. The town itself consists of a rather smal
Austria-Hungary . ounty of Sopron, the property ofPrince Nicholas Esterhazy, which stands high onan outcrop of rock and has fortified walls all are twenty-one country seats belonging to theEsterhazys, ranging from a specimen such as this,through fine palaces, to huge modern are acres of gardens, miles of forest, a famousracecourse and parks without end attached tothese mansions. There are other names also rival-ling that of Esterhazy, such as that of thePrince Festetics, and many another. But we havewandered far from Vienna. The town itself consists of a rather small kernelenclosed by the celebrated Ringstrasse, a tree-linedboulevard, built over the old fortifications removedin 1858 ; beyond this an immense outer ring ofsuburbs is cut by a second promenade. The oldsaying that Vienna is the least part of itself istrue more than ever now when it overflows fartherand farther on to the broken vine-clad slopes whichsurround it. It has little left of ancient interest, if we except. VIENNA AND THE VIENNESE 97 the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, and the situationlacks any sort of charm. The town lies in the flatplain beside a canal. This canal is as a bow to thestring of the river Danube, and was made in orderto bring water facilities to the capital. The diffi-culty is to imagine why this particular place waschosen as a site rather than any other. On oneside at a distance of a mile or so are the heights ofKahlenburg and Leopoldsburg, which can be reachedby rail, and from which the whole place can beseen lying unfolded like a map. The canal with itsmany bridges curves round at ones feet, and atthe outermost rim of its bow is the town with manyfine buildings, including the Cathedral, standing upconspicuously out of the mass of lower ones. Awayto the south is the lumpy hill of Wagram whereNapoleon won a hard-fought battle. The city hastasted not once but many times in its history thebitterness of capture and was twice occupied bythe all-conquering Napole
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