Vindobona

Welcome, fellow historians and curious minds, to the very bedrock of this magnificent city. Long before the grand, sweeping waltzes of the nineteenth century, long before the powerful, sprawling empire of the Habsburgs, and even…

Let us focus our attention squarely on the incredible, highly organized military force that initially transformed this wild, untamed landscape into a highly structured bastion of absolute Roman power. It was here, in the…

As the decades slowly turned into centuries, the strictly, exclusively military nature of Vindobona began to radically, fascinatingly evolve. A massive, permanent garrison of six thousand wealthy, salaried soldiers naturally…

Look very closely, lean over the protective railing, and gaze down into the deepest, most intricate excavated sections of the Michaelerplatz ruins. Among the chaotic, jumbled, overlapping stone walls, you can clearly identify the…

We must now confront the dark, highly turbulent, and incredibly chaotic era that eventually, inevitably brought the glorious, highly ordered Roman period of Vindobona to a violent, tragic close. By the late fourth century,…

Despite the terrifying, absolute devastation of the dark Migration Period, human settlement in this specific, highly strategic geographical location never completely, entirely vanished. It simply transformed, shrinking…

For our final, analytical perspective on ancient Vindobona, I want you to completely step away from the open excavation pit and take a long, thoughtful look down the surrounding, elegant, bustling modern streets of Vienna's…

As we conclude our deep, historical descent into the ancient ruins of Vindobona, take one last, lingering look at the rough, gray, incredibly ancient stones resting silently in the open pit at Michaelerplatz. We have rigorously…