palác Žofín

Czechia

Cross onto Slovanský ostrov and the building ahead seems to face the wrong way. The island is also called Žofín, after Archduchess Sophie, mother of the future Emperor Franz Joseph I. The palace that shares her name is a neo-Renaissance building dating from 1885 and protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. From the embankment you are looking at its back façade. Its face points north and out over the river, and the reason lies in a Prague that has since been demolished around it.

Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Palác Žofín (cs.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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