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Top 10 sights in Innsbruck

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   Ambras Castle

   A Renaissance castle at 632 metres above Innsbruck, converted from a medieval fortress by Archduke Ferdinand II for his commoner wife Philippine Welser. Its Spanish Hall of 1571 is one of the earliest freestanding Renaissance halls north of the Alps.

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   Golden Roof

   An oriel built onto the ducal residence for Maximilian I and finished in 1500, roofed with 2,657 fire-gilded copper tiles so the emperor could watch tournaments in the square below. The reliefs on the balcony show him with both of his wives.

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   Innsbruck Cathedral

   A Baroque cathedral built between 1717 and 1724 to Johann Jakob Herkomer's design, on the site of a 12th-century Romanesque church. The Asam brothers worked on the interior, and Lucas Cranach the Elder's Maria Hilf of about 1530 hangs above the high altar.

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   Hofburg, Innsbruck

   The Habsburg palace in Innsbruck, rebuilt for Maria Theresa between 1754 and 1773 in Viennese rococo and ranked with the Hofburg and Schönbrunn. The Giant's Hall carries portraits of her sixteen children, Marie Antoinette among them.

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   Alpenzoo Innsbruck

   A zoo of 1962 on the slope at 750 metres holding only species native to the Alps — bearded vulture, ibex, lynx, wisent — about 2,000 animals of 150 kinds. The Hungerburg funicular from the centre stops at the gate.

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   Hofkirche

   A court church of 1553 built by Ferdinand I for the cenotaph of his grandfather Maximilian I, ringed by twenty-eight bronze mourners over two metres tall. The emperor is buried in Wiener Neustadt; the Tyrolean rebel Andreas Hofer lies here instead.

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   Swarovski Crystal Worlds

   A crystal attraction at Wattens, twenty kilometres east of Innsbruck, opened in 1995 for the firm's centenary and designed by the theatre-maker André Heller. Chambers of Wonder by Brian Eno, Alexander McQueen and others surround a garden with a mirrored cloud.

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   Collegium Canisianum

   A Jesuit college of theology founded in 1858, where seminarians from around the world live and study together in Innsbruck. It is named for Peter Canisius, and its faculty was a centre of the reform theology that fed into the Second Vatican Council.

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   Hofgarten

   Ten hectares of formal and English garden on the edge of the old town, first laid out on the river marsh under Archduke Ferdinand II in the sixteenth century. It runs between the Hofburg, the state theatre and the congress hall, with a chess pavilion and a bandstand.

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    St. Anne's Column

    A red marble column of 1706 on Maria-Theresien-Straße, raised for the day in 1703 — St Anne's feast — when Bavarian troops were driven out of Tyrol during the War of the Spanish Succession. The Virgin stands on top, with four provincial patrons below.

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   Triumphpforte

   A triumphal arch of 1765 at the south end of Maria-Theresien-Straße, built for the wedding of Maria Theresa's son Leopold. Her husband died during the festivities, so the south side celebrates the marriage and the north side mourns the emperor.

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   Chamber of Art and Curiosities, Ambras Castle

   The cabinet of curiosities Archduke Ferdinand II assembled at Ambras between 1572 and 1583, and the only Renaissance Kunstkammer still in the room it was built for. It holds the portrait of the hair-covered Gonzalez family and Vlad Ţepeş, and a chair that traps the sitter.

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   Helblinghaus

   A late Gothic house at Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 10, opposite the Golden Roof, whose plain fifteenth-century frame was covered in white rococo stucco around 1730. The plasterwork of shells, fruit and cherubs is the most photographed facade in the old town.

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   Tiroler Landesmuseum

   The Tyrolean state museum, founded by subscription in 1823 and named the Ferdinandeum after Archduke Ferdinand. Gothic altarpieces, the original reliefs from the Golden Roof and the largest Tyrolean art collection anywhere are in it.

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   Leopold Fountain

   A bronze fountain of the 1620s near the state theatre, with Archduke Leopold V on a rearing horse — one of the earliest equestrian statues north of the Alps to raise the horse on its hind legs alone. Tritons and sea creatures fill the basin.

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   Museum of Tyrolean Folk Art

   A folk museum in the Renaissance cloister of a former Franciscan friary beside the court church, and the fullest collection of Tyrolean material culture anywhere. Whole panelled Stuben — heated parlours — have been moved in from farmhouses of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.

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   Pogromdenkmal

   A memorial on Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz to the November pogrom of 1938, when four Innsbruck residents were murdered in one night — among the highest tolls anywhere in Austria for its size. It was erected in 1997 and names each of them.

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   Alpine Club Museum

   A museum in the Hofburg run by the Austrian Alpine Club on the history of mountaineering, from the first Alpine ascents to Himalayan expeditions. It holds the club's archive, over three hundred years of maps, and equipment from the 1950s eight-thousander climbs.

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   Hasegg Castle

   A castle and mint at Hall in Tirol, finished soon after 1300 to guard the salt works, the Inn crossing and the river trade that made the town rich. The Münze mint moved here in 1567; the first thaler coins were struck in this valley, and the name became dollar.

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    Zeughaus

    Maximilian I's arsenal of 1500 in the Dreiheiligen quarter, built to store and repair the artillery he was famous for. It is now the Tyrolean history museum, covering mining, salt, the 1809 uprising and the province's partition after 1919.

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