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the Achilleion Palace on the island of Corfu Greece built by Empress Elizabeth of Austria Sissi #101247601
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Achilleion is a palace built in Corfu by Empress of Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi.Elisabeth was a woman obsessed with beauty, and very powerful, but tragically vulnerable since the loss of her only son, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria in the Mayerling Incident in 1889. A year later in 1890, she built a summer palace in the region of Gastouri now the municipality of Achilleion, about ten kilometres to the south of the city of Corfu.
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