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Dying Achilles on the Terrace at the Achilleion Palace on the island of Corfu Greece built by Empress Elizabeth of Austria Sissi Royalty Free Stock Photo

Huge Statue of Achilles in Garden the Achilleion Palace on the island of Corfu Greece built by Empress Elizabeth of Austria Sissi Royalty Free Stock Photo

Dying Achilles on the Terrace at the Achilleion Palace on the island of Corfu Greece built by Empress Elizabeth of Austria Sissi

.Elisabeth was a woman obsessed with beauty, and very powerful, but tragically vulnerable since the loss of her only son, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria in the Mayerling Incident in 1889. A year later in 1890, she built a summer palace in the region of Gastouri now the municipality of Achilleion, about ten kilometres to the south of the city of Corfu. The palace was designed with the mythical hero Achilles as its central theme.