Burg / Double Spiral Staircase

 

 

The centuries have left their traces on the residence of the Habsburgs in Graz, erected in 1438 and now seat of the governor of Styria. Some wings have been added, others destroyed. But there are still many impressive testimonies of the past. From the Biedermeier period back to the Renaissance and Gothic eras.

From the latter period the famous double-spiral staircase remains. And those enigmatic inscriptions: AEIOU.