Palais Strozzi
Austria
The first thing to understand at Josefstädter Straße 39 is that the palace is not what faces you. From the pavement in Vienna's 8th district, Josefstadt, you see a plain Gründerzeit block, put up in 1877 and 1878. The pink-and-white baroque house sits behind it, screened from the street. That front range was built to separate the girls' boarding school then housed here from the cavalry barracks that stood opposite. So the face the building shows the city is a nineteenth-century partition, and the older palace is something you have to look past it to find.
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