Kapuzinergruft (Capuchin's Crypt)

After lunch, Haji and I visited Capuchin's Crypt, where the bodies (but not hearts or entrails - these are buried elsewhere) of the Habsburg emperors and their families are interred. ⚰️

Four centuries of Habsburgs are interred in the sarcophagi in this building, notably Maria Theresa in her enormous double sarcophagus decorated ornately with notable events from her lifetime, Emperor Maximilian who was assassinated in Mexico, and Franz Joseph & Empress Sisi, Austria-Hungary's beloved equivalent of Princess Diana.Read more