Schönbornský palác
Czechia
You will almost certainly see Schönbornský palác only from the outside, and that is not a failing of your visit but the nature of the place. Since the American government made it its embassy, the building at Tržiště 15 in Malá Strana has been open only to staff and invited visitors. So stand in the street and read the façade, the oldest and most ornate part of the building. A plain entrance is framed by two stone Tuscan half-columns, with a balustraded balcony above. Then look for the heavy keystones, repeated floor by floor in three different ways: floating above the ground-floor windows in grooved rustication, locked into tall window surrounds and jutting pediments on the piano nobile, and set over deliberately squat windows on the second floor. Between the first and second floors sits the coloured Schönborn coat of arms. On the roof, a lookout pavilion crowns it all.
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