시시는 언니 네네와 오스트리아 황제 프란츠의 약혼식에 참석하기 위해 빈으로 떠난다. 프란츠는 시시에게 첫눈에 반하고 곤경에 빠진 시시를 프란츠가 구해내자, 시시 또한 프란츠에게 마음이 기울기 시작한다.

"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).

19세기 오스트리아. 열정과 반항심 가득한 엘리자베트와 프란츠 요제프 황제는 빈 황실의 갑갑한 현실 속에 사랑에 빠진다. 곧 이들을 둘러싼 음모와 권력 투쟁의 소용돌이가 펼쳐지는데.

The railway age in the Austrian Empire began with the construction of the horse-drawn railway from Linz to Budweis. Plans soon followed to connect the imperial capital of Vienna with the iron and coal deposits in northern Moravia and with the port city of Trieste. In 1837 the Kaiser Ferdinands Nordbahn was opened, in 1857 the Semmeringbahn planned by Karl Ritter von Ghega, overcoming one of the most difficult obstacles on the way to the Adriatic. The crossing of the Alps by train, such as over the Arlberg or the Brenner, is still considered a unique engineering masterpiece. The expansion of the railway network brought epochal changes. Goods and people circulated on an unprecedented scale – life accelerated. It had succeeded in connecting the northern crown lands such as Silesia or Bohemia and Moravia with Carinthia, Tyrol or the coastal region.