Schloss Ambras sits on a hill just outside Innsbruck. We stopped there on the way out of town, and it turned out to be pretty interesting. Located on the site of a tenth-century castle, the current version was built in the sixteenth century by Archduke Ferdinand II, the son of the Hapsburg Emperor Ferdinand I. From the … Continue reading Innsbruck: Hapsburg Weirdness at Schloss Ambras
