Maria Theresien Street in Innsbruck
Innsbruck is the fifth largest city in Austria. It is nestled in the middle of the Austrian Alps and it is probably one of the most scenic cities that I have been to. The proximity of the mountains to the city adds to the feeling that the mountains are part of the city itself. I wouldn’t be surprised to know that there are structures built at the feet of the mountains themselves. The city itself played a part in European history what with Emperor Maximillian I becoming the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and using Innsbruck as the capital of the empire. With this in mind, I think there would be a lot of historical structures to see here.
Old Innsbruck Central Post Office
For now, I haven’t really gone to the old town of the city. I was skirting around it since it isn’t a direct route to the hotel I would be staying at. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t any interesting structures along the way. The route I took seems to be a historical one and I found the what used to be Innsbruck Central Post Office. It wasn’t hard to notice the building with its prominent tower. The structure was built in the early 1900s. Being a former imperial capital, Innsbruck has this air of sophistication about it and this building is just one of the few reminders of this.
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