In 1563, after being appointed provincial sovereign of Tirol, Austrian Archduke Ferdinand II ordered Italian architects to begin turning a 10th-century medieval fortress in Tirol’s capital city into a Renaissance-style castle for his wife Philippine Welser, whom he’d married in secret some years earlier.
Parts of Schloss Ambras (Ambras Castle) were specifically…
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