You only see what you know (Goethe)
The 9th day of my InterRail journey ended at the railway station Wiener Westbahnhof in Vienna. It was nearly midnight when I arrived. Only the statue of Elisabeth of Austria (‘Sisi’) bid me welcome. The sculpture reminds me that this railway station was one end of the Empress Elisabeth Railway.
In a park of Merano, I came across a monument to Empress Elisabeth (‘Sisi’) of Austria. It happens to be I met her twice on this day. My train trip ended in Vienna, where I saw another sculpture of Sisi at the railway station Wien Westbahnhof.
For many years the railway between Vienna and Salzburg bore the name of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (‘Sisi’). This monument of her stands next to the railway station of Salzburg. You’ll find another Sisi sculpture in the hall of the Vienna West Station.
You find this depiction of Empress Elisabeth ‘Sisi’ of Austria at the Volksgarten in the 1st district of Vienna. Friedrich Ohmann created the monument. The statue was a work by Hans Bitterlich.
On my first walk through Szeged, I came across a monument to Elisabeth of Austria, who was also Queen of Hungary. Her Hungarian name is Erzsébet, but many people of the 21st century know her by the name Sisi or Sissi.