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Vom Festungsring zum Prachtboulevard

A feature in a Viennese city magazine on the history of the Ringstraße, the boulevard that replaced the old city walls.

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What stood where the Ringstraße is today?

Why were the walls demolished?

What happened to many of the families who built palaces on the Ring after 1938?

Why was the opera house mocked?

What, according to the author, does the Ringstraße tell us?