Vienna - Palais Pálffy

With its interior modernized and adapted the former Palais Pálffy in Vienna is now available, under the title "Österreich-Haus", for cultural events. The Emperors' Austrian Chancellery stood on this site c. 1500. It was converted into a nobleman's palace at the end of the 16th C. The buildings were damaged by fire in the 18th C. and partially restored. Mozart produced his "Marriage of Figaro" for the first time before an audience of his friends in the room now called the "Figarosaal".