On the square of the Archangel Michael in front of the Hofburg Palace there are Roman ruins. It is part of the city of Vindobond, founded by the Romans in the province of Norik on the banks of the Danube. It was along the Danube that the border of the empire with the Germanic tribes passed. Vindobond named the city of Vienna. Here in this Roman camp he died in 190 AD. one of the wisest Roman emperors, Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher and representative of Stoicism. Translated with Google Translate
A short walk through the imperial Vienna. The Opera, the Royal Park, the palace of the Augsburg dynasty and the sinister history of the bloody countess Translated with Google Translate