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Those ghosts are still wandering those halls waiting for someone to come in and talk to them.

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In the heart of Sean Brun Palace, the summer home of the Austrian Habsburgs is the hall

of ceremonies.

In the 18th century, Empress Maria Teresa would welcome guests there, awing them with the

rooms elaborate gold decorations.

Today, the hall still has the power to awe, for it's here that the cycle of paintings

depicting the 1760 wedding of Archduke Joseph of Austria, the Empress's son, and Princess

Isabella of Parma, Arhun.

Even 300 years later, the scale of the celebration, as depicted on the artist Martin Van Maitens'

enormous canvases, is almost hard to absorb.

The wedding was classic imperial pageantry at its finest.

The bride wore cloth woven with silver, and she rode into the city in a procession of

90 carriages, through a series of decorative arches built just for the occasion.

Musicians serenaded her from every street corner.

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