Fresco The Triumph Of Achilles By Franz Von Matsch, In Achilleion Palace Of Empress Of Austria Elisabeth Of Bavaria, In Gastouri, Editorial Photo

.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. The palace was designed with the mythical hero Achilles as its central theme.