Hofburg

Elegant means stylish, beautiful, and a little formal.

When I think about Vienna, I think about Schönbrunn Palace, St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Hofburg, the Vienna State Opera, and the giant Ferris wheel in the Prater.

I also think about coffee houses, cake, old streets, music, and people walking slowly and enjoying the city.

It sounds calm, classic, and full of history.

I always like city views from high places.

Yes.

Another famous place is the Hofburg.

The Hofburg is one of Vienna's big historic sites, and many visitors want to see it.

I headed my team here, he headed his team.

So we met at our offices, and he said to me as, first thing, right, no joke, "Oh, I saw you last week in the Hofburg during the racism in sports event." I said, "Yes." He said, "Yeah, I thought you were a powerlifter.

I couldn't believe I could see such a big man working for the OSCE." And I said, "Yes, you know, the OSCE is changing, actually, and that, uh, you know, the problem we're dealing with is so heavy, it's beneficial to have big shoulders like I do." Some people laughed, right?

Mm-hmm.

You stay tuned.

In the Hofburg Library in Vienna, Austria...

There is a spear believed by many to be the one that was used by the Roman soldier who pierced Christ's side.

When Adolf Hitler was in his early 20s and was spending his life there in Vienna, sketching and drawing some diagrams and selling them so that he could live, he spent a lot of time in the Hofburg studying Eastern occultism.

and he became mesmerized by this spear.

In fact, what happened is he was there studying when a tour guide said to some of the guests, whoever unlocks the mystery of that spear will rule the world.

One observer said that as he would stand there, it would be as though he was engulfed in ectoplasmic light, absolutely taken over by the spear and its power.

Later on, when Hitler went to Munich, it is there that he became introduced to the deepest levels of occult transformation.

My mother once told me there'd be times when I didn't pay to get out of bed.

Unfortunately, my bed was some 4,000 miles away, and even on a clear day, you couldn't see it from Bourne's office in the Hofburg.

All I saw was trouble ahead.

I guess Vaughn had the same view.

But just in that moment when he grabs the boy and saves his life in a way, they see already the super spy flying for the window into that room and then the whole show begins and the super spy chasing these guys.

through the whole Hofburg, which is the castle in Vienna.

And down there, the ball taking place at the same time.

The visuals of it, it's just massive.

It's staggering.

You have the architects of the Holocaust, the architects of the Soviet gulags, the father of modern psychoanalysis, and the triggers for the First World War emperor Franz Joseph and Archduke Franz Ferdinand were residing in the Hofburg Palace right there, too.

All in the same neighborhood.

They are all practically breathing the exact same air.