The above image depicts the defeat of the Turks in 1683. This event was a decisive point in the history of Vienna and central Europe as it extinguished the prospect of Ottoman rule.
The late C17th saw the development of the Baroque style in Vienna, with architects such as J B Fischer von Erlach designing palaces and churches for the Hapsburg dynasty. The centre of Vienna to the present still retains a predominantly Baroque, classical character.
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