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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 14:17:00

Some thirty-two thousand weapons, suits of armour, helmets, muskets and pieces of military equipment fill the wooden galleries of the Landeszeughaus in Graz, making it the largest surviving historic armoury in the world. Rank upon rank of polished steel, stacked from floor to ceiling across four storeys, gives an overwhelming impression of a province permanently braced for war. The arsenal was established in the 1640s, when Styria lay on the embattled frontier of Christian Europe and faced repe...