Palais Coburg
Austria
You reach the Palais Coburg by climbing, which is the first clue to what it stands on. The late-classicist city palace at Coburgbastei 4, in Vienna's 1st district, was built on the Braunbastei, a surviving piece of the bastions raised around the city in the 16th and 17th centuries and torn down in the 19th. Most of that ring of fortification has gone. Here a fragment remains, and a palace sits on top of it, so you look up at the façade from the street below rather than meeting it head on.
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