Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder – review. The Musikverein concert hall in Vienna: notable for its caryatids with 'cone-shaped breasts'. Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder – review. Part of my summer holiday was spent driving from Chernivtsi to Riva del Garda. The former, still better known in English by its old German name of Czernowitz, is a busy town in western Ukraine; the latter is a bustling holiday resort at the northern tip of Lake Garda, in Italy. But less than a century ago they were two towns at either end of the same political entity, the Austro-Hungarian empire.