Even the chill was made romantic, thanks to the warm glow of the Christmas markets, a tradition that begins in mid-November and draws tourists and locals alike to stroll along stands of handmade ornaments, crafts and gifts while sipping mulled wine and hot chocolate and nibbling on roasted chestnuts, sugared pastries and, of course, salty-sweet sausages with mustard. With winter snows on the horizon, the days were cold, grey and hazy-a set that somehow made the gilded curls and spires of the city’s Baroque and Gothic architecture all the more imposing and entrancing. With two of my Indagare colleagues, I ventured to Vienna late this November to get a first look at the excitement to come. Many consider this milestone the turning point that set the foundation for modern Vienna’s beauty and global renown (and, yes, this turning point occurred under the rule of Empress Sisi).
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Having held the title in the two years prior to the pandemic, the city is likely to maintain its reign into 2023, when Vienna will also welcome a new, year-long series of cultural and artistic events in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Vienna’s World’s Fair in 1873. Vienna again made recent headlines when it was crowned the “Most Livable City of 2022” by The Economist ’s Global Liveability Index, which ranks the quality of life in 173 cities across the world.
But this resurgence in pop culture is just one of many harbingers of a greater promise that the Austrian capital is poised to claim our attention in the coming year. Centered around the intriguing figure of Empress Elisabeth, also known as “Sisi”-the second-to-last empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire*-three major film and television productions depicting the period have been released over just the past year alone: Sisi (on Disney Plus), The Empress (on Netflix) and Corsage, which premieres in theaters this Friday, December 23. In a parade of silks, jewels and political intrigue, the courts of the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna have lately made their way out of the textbooks and onto our screens-and thus, back into the discussion of the day.
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