Stone villa
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A three-storey mansion with dark walls and roof of a tent, located on the street Bulharskoy called stone villa. Historians consider it one of the most interesting buildings in the city, built in the neo-Renaissance style.

This villa was built in the years 1913-1921 for the bishop of Hradec Králové Josef Oakwood. It was assumed that in its interior will be kept luxury collection of art, which the bishop gathered a long time. Therefore, the task of the architect was to design Bozi Dvorak rooms to match the expensive and valuable paintings, sculptures, utensils.

Bosi Dvorak - a well-known architect of Pardubice, who held a high position in the city government and personally engaged in the development and construction of many houses in the city. To work on the stone villa he also drew his son - Miloslav Bache, a talented sculptor who studied decorated the facade and the interior. In this mansion survived several reliefs and sculptures belonging to the cutter Bache.

If you get around a villa on the west side, you can see the beautiful stained glass window depicting the Virgin and Child. The author of this artwork is Mikoláš Aleš. Entrance and interior doors of the villa are decorated with artistic accents, and the interiors are decorated with stucco.

Originally the villa was one owner, but in 1997 it bought a company that has decided to build this mansion houses for their employees.

Stone villa served as a television movie shooting. Director Yuri Fear rented houses here the devil himself.

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