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BERTRAMKA — Classicist Villa and Summer House

Villa Betramka, originally a vineyard homestead from the break of the 17th and 18th century, gained its name after one of its the first owners Bertram from Bertram. It became the summer residence in 1784 to eminent czech singer Josefína Dušková and pianist, pedagogue…

HVEZDA SUMMER PALACE [Letohrádek Hvězda] — Renaissance Summer Palace

Renaissance Summer Palace with floor projection of a six-pointed star (therefore its and the deer park's name). Archduke Ferdinand Tyrolský had it constructed in 1555-56 by his own plans.

JABLONKA (JABLUNKA) — Classicist Summer Palace

Vineyard compress machine probably used to be here in the 15th century, one-storey building was later built on its place. It was rebuilt into a storey summer palace with a stone terrace by the end of the 18th century and it sustained one more extensive rebuilding in the…

KINSKEHO LETOHRADEK — Classicist Summer Palace

Kinský Summer Palace is an Empire estate from 1827-31 by architect Jindřich Koch. Prague city held an Ethnographic exhibition in 1895 and its exponates were eventually moved into the Kinský Summer Palace in 1902. Today it is home to the ethnographical section of the…

PORTHEIMKA (BUQUOYKA) — Baroque Summer Palace

K.I. Dientzenhofer built this Baroque summer palace for himself in 1725-28 on a place of the former vineyards and fields, paintings decor by V.V. Reiner. F. Buquoy acquired this summer palace in 1758 and aggrandized its former garden. F. Delorme, a factoryowner,…