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 Monument of Freedom - The Monument of Freedom is in the center of Sevlievo (Севлиево - 1894), whose pillar is an original stone column from the Roman town Nikopoluis ad Istrum. The project's authors are Oto Horeishi and the Italian sculptor Arnoldo Tsoky. The bronze figure was made in Vienna. The monument was erected on the place of the gallows from which Sevlievo fighters for Bulgarian freedom start their way to eternity.
 Torre del Filarete - Fountain in front of the Torre del Filarete. In the main entrance to the Ducal Courtyard museums is a stairway leading to the Rocchetta first and second floors, which house the Sforzesco Castle Applied art collections. On the first floor is the so-called Sala della Balla, where ladies and knights at the Sforza Court used to amuse themselves. Here are the magnificent Trivulzio Tapestries, manufactured in Vigevano according to Bramantino's cartoons. In the ball room are also some of the exhibits belonging to the museum of musical instruments. The collection was acquired by the city of Milan starting from the '50s with the Gallini Collection, but includes also a wide range of other exhibits, in particular stringed instruments from Lombardy. In the following rooms are 16th and 17th century lutes, arch lutes, zithers, guitars, and strings that made families from Cremona (the Amati and the Guarneri) renowned in the 17th century. The wind instruments deserve great attention too, to begin with the old hunting horns, the numerous wood instruments (e.g. flutes, oboes, clarinets, English horns) and the bassoons. There are also many valuable exhibits, such as Mango Longo's ten-string guitar, a 16th century harpsichord of the Venice school, Johannes Maria Anciuti's oboe (1722) and a rare glass harmonica, which had once belonged to Pietro Verri. Not to be forgotten, a section with a collection of non-European instruments and two rooms (room XXXIV and room XXXV) with a collection of instruments donated to the castle museum by the Antonio Monzino Foundation in 2000. On the second floor of the Rocchetta is exhibited a great variety of decorative arts from Lombardy, including artistic ceramics, antique furniture, ivories dating from the 4th to the 18th centuries, enamelware from Limoges scientific instruments and time meters. Among the ivory, the consul's diptychs and the Trivulzio little plate, on which emperor Ottone's family is portrayed, deserve particular attention, among the jewellery, Voghera's monstrance must be mentioned. There are interesting wrought iron exhibits, as well as glassware, majolica and china, put in chronological order, from the Middle Ages until the 19th century. Some works are by great majolica painters of the Renaissance - e.g. Francesco Xanto Avelli and Nicola da Urbino - some other by the most important china factories of the 18th century in Europe - e.g. Meissen, Vienna, Capodimonte and Ginori of Doccia.
 Statue - There's a special link between Vienna (Wien in German) and horses, capital of Austria
 Roman towers - Roman towers of the main front of the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
 John Capistrano - Pulpit of John Capistrano, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, Austria (French: Vienne, Autriche)
 Northwest - Northwest side of St. Stephen's Cathedral (German: Stephansdom), Vienna
 St Peter - Façade of St. Peter's Church , Vienna, Austria
 Walking street - Walking street downtown Vienna, Austria
 Kunsthistorisches Museum - Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, joining the Ringstraße, Vienna
 Museum - The Albertina, museum in the Innere Stadt of Vienna, Austria
 Secessionsstil - The secession building (Sezessionsstil in Austria) built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich, Vienna, Austria
 Facade - Schloss Schonbrunn facade, Vienna, Austria
 Horse view - Schloss Schonbrunn, Vienna, Austria
 Fountain - Opera House fontain, Vienna
 Opera front view - Picture of Vienna Opera House
 Vienna architecture - Funky architecture in Vienna
 Fountain and church - Fountain and church, Vienna center
 Dome - Dome of St Charles Borromeo church in Vienna
 Gold statue - Gold statue, Vienna, Austria
 Vienna church - The Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Vienna
 Hofburg - Hofburg Imperial Palace - Hofburg Neue Burg section, seen from Heldenplatz; and the statue of Prince Eugene of Savoy - Vienna, Austria
 Vienna Palace - Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna. It housed some of the most powerful people in Austrian history, including the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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