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Stallburg

Austria

Stand on Reitschulgasse and look through into the courtyard: that is the view the street allows you, and it is enough to understand the building's shape. The Stallburg is a three-storey block wrapped around an arcaded court, set in Vienna's inner city between Josefsplatz and Michaelerplatz and counted as part of the Hofburg. What gives it its life today is who sleeps on the ground floor. The Lipizzaners of the Spanish Riding School are stabled here, while the stud that breeds them lies far away at Piber in Styria. The Austrian federal government is among the building's other users.

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