Kolowratská zahrada / Kolowrat Garden (Prague) - Baroque Architecture on Waymarking.com

Kolowrat Garden (Kolowratská zahrada), one of six Baroque southern-oriented terrace gardens bellow Prague Castle, belongs among jewels of Baroque garden architecture and also among the most beautiful tourist sites in Czech capital.

This garden, bulit probably by Ignác Jan Nepomuk Palliardi, belongs to the Kolowrat Palace (Valdštejnská Street N° 154). Situated on the slope between the Great Pálffy Garden and the Lesser Fürstenberg Garden, this garden of a traditionally utility character is separated from the palace by a courtyard which became the main starting point of tours of the palace gardens. The east part of the lower terrace contains a Baroque fountain with a gargoyle. Traditionally the garden is planted with fruit trees supplemented by shrubs and other plants. The garden was completely reconstructed and opened for public in 2000.

The complex of six Baroque gardens (Ledebour Garden, Small and Great Palffy Gardens, Kolowrat, Small and Great Fürstenberg Gardens) lies behind Prague' Lesser Town palaces by the Wallenstein Street. It was designed by world prominent Baroque architects and artists such as Jan Santini-Aichl, Giovanni Battista Alliprandi or Ignác Jan Nepomuk Palliardi. Each garden has its own specific layout and offers many romantic nooks. Outstanding are the architectural elements of Fürstenberg Small Garden - motives of four seasons. Grat Palffy Garden is decorated by a fountain with Triton and also a sundial in the portal above the staircase. The Ledebour Garden with sala terrena with paintings is mostly used for festivities and weddings. From the upper terrace over the rooftops and church towers is one the best views over Prague...