Grasalkovičov palác
Slovakia
You find it on Hodžovo námestie, one of Bratislava's busiest squares, with traffic turning in front of it: a pale rococo palace built so symmetrically along its central axis that one half reads as a mirror of the other. Since 1996 it has been the seat of the President of the Slovak Republic, which is why most locals simply call it the Presidential Palace. It was built in 1760 for Count Anton Grasalkovič, a lawyer who later chaired the Hungarian Royal Chamber. Picture it when new, too: it stood on open ground in front of a town that was still walled and fortified, not in the middle of the city as it does now.
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