Vienna by *mastertouch

At a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4, 1894, a five and a half year old girl was exhibited who weighed 250 pounds. She subsisted on a normal diet and was otherwise in good health. The only unusual feature of the girl’s physiology was that she never Perspired.

The largest emerald of the world, which is of a huge 2860 caret, is displayed in the Imperial Treasury in Vienna.

Tiergarten Schönbrunn, which is world’s oldest zoological garden, which was founded in 1752, is present in Vienna.

Zentralfriedhof cemetery has over 2.5 million tombs, which is almost double than the city’s living population. It also has tombs of some of the most famous personalities of the world such as Beethoven, Brahms, Gluck, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Strauss.

Unlike Mozart, who was buried in a common grave (as was the custom at the time), 20,000 Viennese citizens lined the streets at Beethoven’s funeral on 29 March 1827. The funeral procession was one of the most impressive Vienna had.

*Meluxine wonders if Beethoven had groupies