Sissi adored both the spa town of Merano and Trauttmansdorff Castle
Empress Sissi spent two of her four Merano health sojourns at Trauttmansdorff Castle. After her arrival “in the strictest incognito” (yet with a retinue of 102 people!) via the newly commissioned Brenner Railway, Sissi moved into her rooms – sumptuously furnished and renovated especially for her – at Merano’s Trauttmansdorff Castle for the first time on 16 October 1870. She had brought her ailing two-year-old daughter, Marie Valerie, with her.