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Palais Trautson

Austria

You find Palais Trautson at Museumstraße 7, in Vienna's seventh district, Neubau, and the first thing to know is that it is still a working building. This is the seat of Austria's Federal Ministry of Justice, so you are looking at government offices dressed in one of the city's most important Baroque fronts. Stand back on the street and take in the richly decorated three-storey façade. Then look above the windows: many carry reliefs showing scenes from the legends of antiquity, a frieze of old stories running across a modern ministry.

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