palác Smiřických
Czechia
Stand on Malostranské náměstí and look for number 6/18, and you find a building that answers to two names. It is the palác Smiřických, after the noble family who shaped it, and it is also U Montágů, after the man who later gave it its Baroque coat. Today it belongs to the complex of buildings used by the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament. Behind its façade are offices. The chamber itself sits in session nearby, in the Thun Palace. So the palace you are looking at is a working part of the state, not a museum.
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