Schodište v Ledebourské zahrade / Stairway in the Ledebour Garden (Prague)
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Depicted complicted historic stairway, connecting all parts of the terrace garden, set You can visit in the Baroque Ledebour Garden (Ledebourská zahrada) below Prague Castle.
Waymark Code: WMNTTK
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/03/2015
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Depicted complicted historic stairway, connecting all parts of the terrace garden, set You can visit in the Baroque Ledebour Garden (Ledebourská zahrada) below Prague Castle.
Ledebour Garden, 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. In the past a Renaissance palace terraced garden existed on the slope behind the Ledebour Palace. Most probably prior to 1710 Marie Karolína and Leopold Antonín Trautmannsdorf began to build a Baroque garden there. A three-part sala terrena appeared beside the palace. The decoration of the sala terrena 'a la Pompeii', is at least in a part work of painter V.V. Reiner. Opposite there is a coulisse wall with fountain (with statue of Hercules fighting Cerberos from the 1st quarter of the 18th century) and a staircase, which leads up to the terraced part of teh garden via polygonal pavilion. Between 1988-1995 it underwent extensive reconstruction consisting of architectural adaptations, restoration and cultivation of plants carried out with the aim of returning the garden – as much as possible – to its original appearance in line with the project documentation.