Innsbruck

The city began in the Middle Ages as a strategic crossing of the Inn, and the name says so, bridge over the Inn. It came under Habsburg control in 1363 and became an important residence of Maximilian I, who gave it landmarks such as the Golden Roof. It was a political and cultural centre of Tyrol in the early modern period and a centre of Catholic reform, and after the Treaty of Pressburg it spent a short spell inside the Kingdom of Bavaria before returning to Austria at the Congress of Vienna. It lies in a broad valley below the Karwendel’s North Chain.