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      alte Hofburg, Michaelerplatz: 
      
      The Hofburg 
      (Imperial Palace) includes the opulent Imperial Apartments (now occupied 
      by  
      the president of Austria), the Royal Chapel (where the Vienna Boy's Choir 
      sings at  
      Sunday mass), the Spanish Riding School, the Imperial Treasury (including 
      religious relics  
      like one of the nails from the Crucifixion and one of the thorns from 
      Christ's crown), the Augustinian Friars and Capuchin church with the 
      Imperial Crypt of the Habsburg family,  
      the
      National 
      Library and Baroque Prunksaal hall.   |