Wallenstein Palace and gardens - details and images

The Wallenstein Palace garden will likely see the first of a palace in Prague. It belongs to the Wallenstein Palace, today is the Czech Senate. The garden was built with baroque-style palace in 1623. On the east side of the garden you can find terreni room with three arches. Room walls are decorated with frescoes representing the Trojan wars.

Terreni Hall organizes concerts and theater performances. If you enter from the palace garden, the first thing you see will be a wall to mimic a stalactite cave. On the right side grotto is a large caged exotic birds.

Many statues and fountains that you see in the gardens of Wallenstein are copies made by some of Adrian Veries. The statues represent the heroes of Greek mythology. Original statues were taken as war booty by Swedish army in 1648. The only statue was returned to the Czechs is Venus with a Dolphin and armor that can be found at Prague Castle Gallery.

Wallenstein Garden has an area of 1.7 hectares being enough space for a pond with ducks. Facility has been used for boat little in the past. Another copy lu Veries work is represented by a marble fountain with statues of Hercules and Naiads of being on a small island in the middle of the pond.

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