Ornate palaces, imperial monuments and echoes of Mozart’s music abound in Austria, where artists, architects and designers have long moved beyond the traditional boundaries of their genres.  Rich in history, the Austro-Hungarian Empire with its imperial capital in Vienna once stretched eastwards from present-day Austria through much of east-central and south-central Europe. It included the entire territories of modern day Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and portions of Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Poland and Italy.