The HotelsAccommodations in locations on Sisi’s Road

Tourism Association Bad IschlAuböckplatz 5, A-4820 Bad IschlTel.: +43 6132 27757www.badischl.at

City Museum Bad IschlEsplanade 10A-4820 Bad IschlTel.: +43 6132 25476www.stadtmuseum.at

Schönbrunn CastleA-1130 WienTel.: +43 1 81113-0www.schoenbrunn.at

Schönbrunn ZooMaxingstraße 13b A-1130 WienTel.: +43 1 8779294-0www.zoovienna.at

Imperial Furniture Collection-Furniture MuseumAndreasgasse 7 A-1070 WienTel.: +43 1 5243357www.hofmobiliendepot.at

In Bavaria, Austria, Hungary, Italy, on Corfu and in Switzerland

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Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbHTouristinformation:Rathausplatz 1Address:Schießgrabenstraße 1486150 AugsburgTelefon 08 21/5 02 07-0Telefax 08 21/5 02 07-45tourismus@regio-augsburg.dewww.augsburg-tourismus.de

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Sisi Museum & Imperial Apartments & Silver Collections MichaelerkuppelA-1010 WienTel.: +43 1 5337570www.hofburg-wien.at

Laxenburg CastleBetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.Schlossplatz 1A-2361 LaxenburgTel.: +43 2236 71226-0www.schloss-laxenburg.at

Esterhàzy Castle Esterházyplatz 1A-7000 EisenstadtTTel.: +43 2682 63004-7600www.esterhazy.at

HungaryRoyal Castle GödöllöPostfach 406H-2100 GödöllöTel.: +36 28410-124www.kiralyikastely.hu

Lazàr Equestrian ParkH-2182 DomonyvölgyTel.: +36 28 576-510www.lazarteam.hu

Herend AG Porcelain ManufacturerKossuth L.u. 140H-8440 HerendTel.: +36 88 523-100www.herend.com

ItalyThe Gardens at Trauttmansdorff CastleSt.-Valentin-Straße 51aI-39012 MeranTel.: +39 0473 255600www.trauttmansdorff.it

Miramare CastleViale MiramareI-34151 TriestTel.: +39 040 224143www.castello-miramare.it

Tourism Agency Friuli Venezia GiuliaVia dell’Orologio 1 I-34121 TriestTel.: +39 040 3478312www.comune.trieste.it

Promo TriesteMolo dei Bersaglieri, 3I-34124 TriesteTel.: +39 040 304888www.promotrieste.it

Correr MuseumPiazza San MarcoI-30124 VeniceTel.: +39 041 2405211http://correr.visitmuve.it/

The Island of CorfuAchilleion MuseumGastouri Corfù P.O. 49084 CorfuTel.: +30 26610 56245www.achillion-corfu.gr

SwitzerlandGeneva Tourism and Convention OfficeRue du Mont-Blanc 18CH-1201 GenevaTel.: +41 22 9097000www.geneve-tourisme.ch

Point „I“ MontreuxPlace de l’EurovisionCH-1820 MontreuxTel.: +41 848 868484www.montreuxriviera.com

Travel destinations on Sisi’s Road

Hotel recommendations on Sisi’s Road

The following hotels are partners: They welcome guests at the various locations connected with the history of the beautiful lady from Wittelsbach.

Elisabeth’s footsteps in six European countries

A path from old Bavaria through Austria and as far as Hunga-ry, from the Adriatic Sea all the way to Lake Geneva, the SisiRoute leads to magnificent places where Elisabeth the Empressof Austria and Queen of Hungary lived and traveled. Followingthe footsteps of the beautiful lady from Wittelsbach guides travelers to experience these destinations:

Velencei-tó

Lake Constance

Danube

Ammersee

Starnberger SeeForggensee

Chiemsee Attersee

EbenseeMondsee

TegernseeNeusiedler See

Balaton

Danube

Lake Garda

Lago di Lévico

Lac de Neuchâtel

Lake Geneva

Adriatic Sea

Lago di Caldonazzo

Augsburg Unterwittelsbach

Geneva

Neuschwanstein

Trauttmansdorff

Trieste

Miramare

Bad Ischl

Vienna

Budapest

Laxenburg

Esterhàzy Castle

Gödöllö

Domonyvölgy

Aichach

Roseninsel Possenhofen

Passau

Munich

Füssen

Innsbruck

Brenner/ Brennero

Meran/Merano Bozen/

Bolzano

Trento

Madonna di Campiglio

Padova Milan

Venice

Montreux

Salzburg

Maria Taferl Artstetten

Mayerling

Györ

Zürich

Bern

Corfu

HungarySwitzerland

Italy

Austria

Bavaria

Ionian Sea

CorfuGreece

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BavariaCity of AichachStadtplatz 48D-86551 AichachTel.: +49 8251 902-0www.aichach.deRoute and Contact Sisi Castle:Klausenweg 186551 AichachTel.: +49 8251 891869

Tourist Information StarnbergHauptstraße 1D-82319 StarnbergTel.: +49 8151 9060-0www.sta5.de

Empress Elisabeth MuseumPossenhofen e.V.In the Possenhofen Central Train Station Schlossberg 2, D-82343 PöckingTel.: +49 8157 925932www.kaiserin-elisabeth-museum-ev.de

AustriaImperial Villa Bad IschlJainzen 38A-4820 Bad IschlTel.: +43 6132 23241www.kaiservilla.com

BavariaGolfhotel Kaiserin ElisabethTutzinger Straße 2D-82340 FeldafingTel.: +49 8157 9309-0www.kaiserin-elisabeth.de

Hotel Am RathausAm Hinteren Perlachberg 1D-86150 AugsburgTel.: +49 821 346490www.hotel-am-rathaus-augsburg.de

Hotel Goldenes SchiffAdalbert-Stifter-Kai 3A-4820 Bad IschlTel.: +43 6132 24241www.goldenes-schiff.at

Austria

HOTEL KAISERHOF WIENFrankenberggasse 10A-1040 WienTel.: +43 150 51701www.hotel-kaiserhof.at/wien

AUSTRIA TREND HOTELSPARKHOTEL SCHÖNBRUNNHietzinger Hauptstraße 10–14A-1130 WienTel.: +43 187 804605www.austria-trend.at

HungaryHotel SissiAngyal utca 31H-1094 BudapestTel.: +36 121 50082www.hotelsissi.hu

ItalyHotel Adria MeranHermann-Gilmweg 2I-39012 Meran (Südtirol)Tel.: +39 0473 236610www.hotel-adria.com

Grand Hotel Imperial Levico TermeVia Silva Domini 1I-38056 Levico Terme (Trento)Tel.: +39 0461 700512www.hotel-imperial-levico.com

SwitzerlandHotel Beau-Rivage13, quai du Mont-Blanc CH-1201 GenfTel.: +41 2271 66666www.beau-rivage.ch

Hotel Masson, Montreux Riviera5, rue Bonivard CH-1820 Veytaux-MontreuxTel.: +41 21 966 00 44www.hotelmasson.ch

Sisi’s RoadAlong the pathways of the Empress and Queen Elisabeth

BavariaAustriaHungaryItaly CorfuSwitzerland

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BavariaBetween Augsburg and the Alps

Sisi – her childhood and visits in Bavaria

The “Water Castle” in Unterwittelsbach is located near the town of Aichach: From 1838 it was a favorite residence of Sisi’s father,the Count Max, in Bavaria. As a child, Elisabeth spent carefree times here. Sisi’s brother, Ludwig, and her favorite niece, Marie-Louise, lived only 30 car-minutes away, in Augsburg. A plaque on Maximillian Street in Augsburg is a memorial to Sisi’s niece,the Countess Larisch-Wallersee, who played a major role in the“Tagödie von Mayerling” in 1889. Continuing further southwardto Starnberger Lake is Possenhofen Castle, which Sisi lovingly named “her Possi”. She spent many summers there, swimming orboating to the Rose Island. Sisi often returned to her childhood“paradise” at the lake. The historical train station in Possenhofenhouses an Empress Elisabeth Museum with the much photogra-phed Sisi-statue in front of it.

The royal apartments at theVienna Castle and the whiteSisi statue at Achilleion.

AustriaFrom Bad Ischl to Vienna and Laxenburg

Hungary To Budapest and Gödöllö

Gödöllö was Sisi’s favoriteHungarian castle.

Sisi’s RoadA Cultural journey in six European countries

Sisi’s Road is a path to glamorous locations in the life of the legendary Habsburg Empress and Queen Elisabeth. The lady from Wittelsbach with the nickname “Sisi” spent her childhoodand youth in Bavaria. When she married the Austrian Emperor, Franz Joseph I, she became the Empress of Austria, whose empireincluded extensive territories in Italy. A few years later she wascrowned Queen of Hungary. Elisabeth was celebrated as the most beautiful woman of her time. She suffered under the strictceremony of the royal court, which she often fled in order to fulfill her passion for athletic horse-back riding and travel.

Sisi’s Road is a European cultural route leading to destinationsimportant in the life of the Monarch, Empress Elisabeth. Ideal fortour groups as well as for individual tourists, the route leads to amyriad of worthy destinations. From charming cities and breath-taking landscapes to splendid lakes and spanning to the Mediter-ranean Sea, travelers are rarely able to visit every location in onetrip. Magnificent residences and castle parks, monuments and museums all make this one of “the most beautiful dream roads inthe world”. The German magazine “HÖRZU” presented the “Sisi-Straße” as one of the twelve outstanding tourism routes world -wide. Travelers on Sisi’s Road are led through Bavaria, Austriaand Hungary, to northern Italy and to the Greek Island of Corfu.Sisi died in Lake Geneva, Switzerland in 1898. The legend of Sisilives on, in part due to the Route which bears her name. More at: www.sisi-strasse.info

Italy & CorfuSouth Tirol and the Mediterranean

SwitzlerlandFrom Montreux to Geneva on Lake Geneva

The Lady from WittelsbachTake a cultural journey in the footsteps of an Empress.

As a child Sisi stayed in Unterwittelsbach, near the town of Aichach.

Maximilian Street (left) inAugsburg and the Sisi-statueat Possenhofen train station.

Schönbrunn Castle - summerresidence for the emperor.

Elisabeth – the Empress of Austria

It was in Bad Ischl that Sisi first met the Emperor Franz Joseph I.They were engaged in 1853 in what is today the City Museumof Bad Ischl. The Imperial Villa in Bad Ischl became a retreatfor Elisabeth and in 1861 the Marble Castle in the Park wasbuilt. In Vienna the Imperial Summer Residence, SchönbrunnCastle, attests to the glory of the Austro Hungarian Monarchy.The castle and the castle gardens along with the oldest Zooin the world, founded in 1752, belong to the Unesco WorldHeritage Sites. In the Hofburg, which was a residence for theHabsburgs over a period of 700 years, one can view the SisiMuseum in the Imperial Apartments. The Imperial FurnitureCollection exhibits the furnishings of the Imperial Family. TheCastle Laxenburg was once the showplace for the honeymoonof the imperial couple and the births of two of their children.

The Imperial Villa in BadIschl (left) and FranzensburgPalace at Laxenburg.

Erzsébet – the Queen of Hungary

In 1867 Empress Elisabeth of Austria was able to persuade Hungary to form a political union with Austria. She then beca-me Queen of her beloved Hungary. The Emperor Franz Josephand the Empress Elisabeth were crowned King and Queen in St. Matthews Church in Budapest. The Elisabeth Monument near the Elisabeth Bridge demonstrates Budapest’s enduring admiration for their Queen “Erzsébet”. At the coronation, thepeople of Hun gary bequeathed the royal couple the Castle Gödöllö, known as the “Hungarian Versailles”. Not far fromCastle Gödöllö is the Làzàr Horse Riding Park in Domonyvölgy,a reminder of Sisi’s love for equestrian sport. The porcelain manufacturer in Herend provided the royal couple with the finest in tableware.

Monuments of Elisabeth, theEmpress and Queen, can beviewed in Gödöllö (left) andon the Elisabeth Bridge inBudapest.

Northern Italy and Corfu: Travel and Health Resorts

The Empress often fled to Italy to relax and recuperate in thewarmer southern climate. In the resort city of Merano, South-Tirol, visitors encounter a monument to Sisi in the Empress Elisabeth Park. In the eastern part of the city are the gardens ofthe Castle Trauttmansdorff. The tourism museum located there,“Touriseum”, is a reminder of the Empress’ love for travel. Ninerooms of the royal apartments in the Museum Correr on St.Mark’s Square are a witness to Sisi’s abode in Venice. There isalso a monument to the Empress Elisabeth at the main trainstation in Triest. Her dream palace, Miramare, is close to Trieston the coast of the Adriatic Sea. This harbor city was Elisa-beth’s port of choice on the Mediterranean. On the Greek islandof Corfu, she had a marble palace built – the Achilleion.

The Museum Correr in Venice and the Castle Miramare near Trieste.

Trauttmansdorff Castle –Sisi’s health spa.

In Switzerland – the last days of the Empress

Elisabeth stayed in two hotels in Montreux on Lake Geneva. In Territet, which Sisi visited 4 times, a monument was erectedin her honor in 1902. After her last stay in Montreux, the Empress travelled by boat across the Lake to Geneva. After one night in the Hotel Beau-Rivage, an anarchist stabbed her on her way back to the boat. On September 10th, 1898, in her 61st year of life, Elisabeth succumbed to her injuries.There are still some of her personal belongings on display inthe hotel. On the lake shore a bronze plaque and a Sisi-statueremind visitors of the assassination. In the stained glass win -dows of the Basilica Notre-Dame, the image of Saint Elisabethbears the facial features of the Empress of Austria and Queenof Hungary.

Hotel Beau-Rivage on theshore of Lake Geneva.

A monument of Elisabeth inGeneva (left) and in Territetnear Montreux.

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