zámek Mnichovo Hradiště
Czechia
Walk in through the main entrance and look straight ahead. On the far side of the open courtyard, set precisely on the axis of the gate, stands the sala terrena, a garden pavilion built in 1709–1711 by the Wallenstein family's builder Nicolo Raimondi. Everything here is arranged around that line of sight. The castle is a three-winged block wrapped around an open cour d'honneur, with service buildings stepping down in height according to their importance. That plan marks a turning point in secular architecture at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, when the closed courtyard block was giving way to something more open and theatrical. Similar features, and probably some shared inspiration, appear at the Lobkowicz castle of Jezeří and at the Sternberg villa of Troja.
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