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Palac Kinskych Review
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Palác Kinských
- Address: Staromestske namesti 12, Stare Mesto, Prague, Bohemia
- Phone: 224-810-758
- www.ngprague.cz
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Kinsky Palace
- Category: Museums/Galleries, Castles/Palaces
- Location: Staré Mesto
Fodor's Review:
With its exaggerated pink overlay and numerous statues, this exuberant building, built in 1765 from Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer's design, is considered one of Prague's finest rococo, late-baroque structures. The façade looks extravagant when contrasted with the somber baroque elements of other nearby buildings. (The interior, however, was "modernized" under Communism.) The palace once contained a German school -- where Franz Kafka studied for nine misery-laden years -- and presently holds the National Gallery's graphics collection. Communist leader Klement Gottwald, flanked by comrade Vladimír Clementis, first addressed the crowds after seizing power in February 1948 from this building -- an event recounted in the first chapter of Milan Kundera's novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
- Cost: 100 Kc
- Open: Tues.-Sun. 10-6
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