So we all went as a family on Derrick's class field trip to Castello Miramare de Trieste and the camera was out of battery. My bad- we got two pics. Here is the one with Derrick and Isabelle. We had a great time and the castle was so beautiful and elaborate inside. the bottom floor was designed to look like the inside of a ship with wood floor, ceilings, and walls. They even had a fish tank in the floor of the 2nd floor that could be viewed in the ceiling of the 1st! The wood inlay of the ceiling was copied on the floors. They spared no expense. Here is a neat fact, the castle was built for Maximilian, brother of Franz Joseph (the Emperor of Austria). Maximilian later became the Emperor of Mexico! Being from Texas, we had of course heard the name Maximilian alot in our Texas history classes. Crazy how a man from Austria came to be Emperor of Mexico.
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