About Ambras Castle
Ambras Castle is a Renaissance citadel and palace placed in the hills above Innsbruck, Austria. Ambras Castle is 587 metres above sea stage. Considered one of the maximum popular tourist sights of the Tyrol, Ambras Castle became constructed in the 16th century immediately of an earlier tenth-century castle, which became the seat of strength for the Counts of Andechs. The cultural and ancient importance of the citadel is intently connected with Archduke Ferdinand II 1529 to 1595 and served as his own family residence from 1567 to 1595. Ferdinand was one in every of history’s most prominent collectors of art.
The princely sovereign of Tyrol, son of Emperor Ferdinand I, ordered that the medieval citadel at Ambras be was a Renaissance citadel as a present for his spouse Philippine Welser. The cultured humanist from the House of Habsburg accommodated his international-well-known collections in a museum: The collections, still inside the Lower Castle built particularly for that museum motive, make Castle Ambras Innsbruck the oldest museum in the world.
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