Date of visit: 1 - 3 September, 2007 旅遊日期：9月1至3日 Vienna is a witness to some of the most extraordinary histories, which has still left some of their marks today. 維也納有一段不凡的歷史，至今仍能看到留下的痕跡。 The city was the political centre of the Habsburg family and its empire, which at one stage stretched far westwards and eastwards (the Plaza Mayor in Madrid is one of the symbols of their rule). Some of the territories were gained through marriage into other European royal families, and through their helm at the Holy Roman Empire. In more recent history, it was the assassination of the heir to the Habsburg throne in Sarajevo in 1914 that directly triggered World War I. The Habsburgs are certainly a most influential royal family in the course of history. 維也納是歐洲一大皇族哈布斯堡（Habsburg）的統治中心，該家族曾統領歐洲多國，透過婚姻「滲透」其他皇朝以擴張領土——包括西班牙， 馬德里的大廣場 （Plaza Mayor）就是其標記——又把持神聖羅馬帝國的帝位，到1914年其繼承人在前南斯拉夫被暗殺，觸發第一次世界大戰，可見其影響了。 The Habsburg family left Vienna with many treasures. Of course they include castles - two, in fact, with Ho