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Lobkovický palác

Czechia

You find it on Vlašská, number 347/19, on the slope of Malá Strana, and the first thing to know is that the flag over the door is German. This Baroque palace, once called the palace of the Přehořovský of Kvasejovice, has housed the embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1974, the year diplomatic relations between Czechoslovakia and West Germany were restored. The building and the Lobkovice garden behind it are protected together as a cultural monument, and both have been at the centre of one of the most charged autumns in modern European history.

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