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Letohrádek Hvězda
Letohrádek Hvězda is a small Renaissance summer villa in the Liboc game reserve of Prague, built 1555–1558 and named for its six-pointed star plan. The compact, symmetrical building sits within parkland and today is protected as a national cultural monument and used for exhibitions and events.
First raised
1555
Its prime
1558
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1558
The shape it held in its prime.
Compact, three-storey masonry villa laid out as a six-pointed star: a central polygonal block with six short projecting wings forming star points. Smooth pale rendered walls punctuated by small, regularly spaced rectangular windows fitted with red-and-white painted shutters. Very steep, many-faceted dark metal roof rising to a single golden ball finial with small dormer openings set into the slopes. Sits low within a cleared glade of park trees and trimmed hedges with a straight gravel approach.
Its story
The story of Letohrádek Hvězda.
King Ferdinand I founded the game reserve at Liboc in 1530, and twenty-five years later commissioned his younger son Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, to build a villa within it. The Archduke alone laid the foundations on 27 June 1555, and construction finished three years later. The building is shaped as a six-pointed star, from which villa and reserve take their shared name, Hvězda.
The compact Renaissance villa still stands in its game reserve about 7 km west of Prague's centre, protected today as a national cultural monument and used for exhibitions and events.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1558.
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