Archbishop's Palace
   Photo: Archbishop's Palace

Archiepiscopal residence in Olomouc - is a complex palace complex with two courtyards, three entrances and seven residential buildings, which is open to the public. Local tour guides do not get tired to stress that Olomouc - the only place in Central Europe, where you can access the inner sanctum of the hierarch of the Catholic Church. During a visit to the palace, tourists have the opportunity to visit several residential buildings, luxury library, an office, which deals with issues of church hall designed for various exhibitions.

Archbishop's Palace - is not only a private residence, but also a public building, the interiors of which often hosts cultural events and meetings are of national importance.

The building of the palace appeared in the XVI century and since then has undergone many changes. Originally a Renaissance house was badly damaged during a fire in the Thirty Years War. The emergence of a large palace complex Olomouc Bishop Charles II shall Kastelkornu Liechtenstein. It was he, doing the repairs of buildings after the fire, took a decision on its expansion, which has acquired the adjacent dilapidated houses and demolished them, thus clearing space for the construction of new buildings. At the same time the residence was designed in the Baroque style.

In the early XX century, another fire was the cause of a new reconstruction of the palace complex. While the roof was decorated with a small tower in the neo-baroque style and the statue of St. Wenceslas.

The local archbishop's palace witnessed the visits of many crowned heads, among which can be called the Russian Emperor Alexander I, and Austrian monarchs Maria Theresa and Franz Josef I.

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