- Type
- Palace / château
- Style
- baroque architecture
- Heritage
- part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site (an old town or a valley, for example)
- Visiting
- probably – Wikidata lists it as a museum or gives tickets, opening hours or visitor numbers; check before you go
- Coordinates
- 49.3003°, 17.3931°
History
The bishops of Olomouc had a castle in Kroměříž as early as the 13th century, and late in the 16th century it was rebuilt as a Renaissance residence. In 1643, during the Thirty Years' War, the Swedes sacked the town and the castle. Rebuilding was begun by Bishop Karl II of Liechtenstein-Castelcorn, who hired the architects Filiberto Lucchese and Giovanni Pietro Tencalla and gave the seat its Baroque form. After a fire in 1752 the interiors were redecorated in the Rococo style. In 1848–1849 the Austrian parliament met in the Assembly Hall until it was dissolved by the emperor. In 1998 the palace and its gardens were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
What to see
The tour leads through the state rooms, including the Assembly Hall with ceiling paintings by Franz Anton Maulbertsch, and the picture gallery with Titian's The Flaying of Marsyas. The library and music archive hold valuable manuscripts and scores. The extensive Castle Garden adjoins the palace, and a few hundred metres away lies the Baroque Flower Garden with its rotunda and colonnade.
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