One of most beautiful women in world.

One of most beautiful women in world.

Empress of Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi, was a woman obsessed with beauty, powerful but tragically vulnerable in the wake of the loss of her only son, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, in the Mayerling affair of 1889. A year later, in 1890, she built a summer palace in the region of Gastouri to the south of the city, with the powerful mythical hero Achilles as its central theme.
The palace, with the neoclassical Greek statues that surround it, is a monument to platonic romanticism as well as escapism, and was named after Achilles depicting the scenes of the Trojan war.The Imperial gardens atop the hill provide a view of the surrounding green hill crests and valleys and the Ionian sea. The parallels to the grieving Empress recuperating from the painful loss of her only son by trying to extract it from her memory, but never quite being able to do so, are compelling. In 1898, Empress Sissi was assassinated in Geneva, Switzerland, at the age of 60. After her death the palace was sold to the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, and was eventually acquired by the Greek State. The Achilleion has been converted into a museum. But lonesome Empress is still in her most favourite residency as a sculpure, made of marble and frigile beauty.

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