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details of the 'Aula Leopoldina'
University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw Poland
building donated by the Habsburg Emperors Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles VI
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details of the 'Aula Leopoldina'
University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw Poland
building donated by the Habsburg Emperors Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles VI
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details of the 'Aula Leopoldina'
University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw Poland
building donated by the Habsburg Emperors Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles VI
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details of the 'Aula Leopoldina'
University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw Poland
building donated by the Habsburg Emperors Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles VI
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details of the 'Aula Leopoldina'
University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw Poland
building donated by the Habsburg Emperors Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles VI
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Wroclaw, Poland
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surviving gate erected during the reign of Maria Theresa, Queen of Bohema etc.
Palachovo náměstí with some modern art
Olomouc, Moravia
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Charles Square
Nové Město ✶ Prague ✶ Czech Republic
Carlo Lurago, architect
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Kostel svatého Rocha (St Roch church), part of the Styrahov monastery complex
At the beginning of the 17th century, it was built by Emperor Rudolf II as a votive church for averting a plague epidemic.
Hradčany, Prague, Czechia
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Pražská Loreta
Hradčany, Prague, Czechia
Giovanni Orsi, architect
begun 1626 after the victory over the Protestants at the battle of the White Mountain. Funded by the aristocrat Kateřina Benigna Lobkowicz.
The baroque facade was designed by the architects Christoph Dientzenhofer and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, and added at the beginning of the 18th century.
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Monumento imponente dedicado à imperatriz Maria Teresa na Maria-Theresien-Platz, em Viena. Rodeado por jardins floridos, este conjunto escultórico celebra a figura histórica que marcou o império Habsburgo, com destaque para a imperatriz no centro e figuras militares e culturais à sua volta.
Built 1893- 1894
architects: Bedřich Ohmann, Jindřich Jechenthal, Rudolf Krighammer, Bohumil Hypšman, Josef Zítek, Josef Schulz, Vladimír Kružík
address: Senovážné náměstí 866/30
now: Czech National Bank (conference center)
19th century architecture ✶ Prague ✶ Czech Republic
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telephoto: decorative sculptures atop the National Theater building
Národní třída (once Ferdinandova Avenue)
Prague
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National Theater
Národní třída (once Ferdinandova Avenue)
Prague
Josef Zítek, Josef Schulz architects
Built 1868-1883
The National Theater was first opened on 11 June 1881 in honor of the visit of Crown Prince Rudolf. On 12 August 1881, a fire broke out, destroying the roof, auditorium and stage of the theater.
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Rudolfinum
statue of Antonín Dvořák
Prague
architects Josef Zítek (design for the National Theatre just down the embankment in Prague (after a fire in 1881 the project was taken over by Josef Schulz)) and Josef Schulz (National Museum),
The building was built between 1876 and 1881 and the grand opening took place on 7 February 1885 as a multi-purpose cultural facility with a concert hall and exhibition halls. The Rudolfinum was built on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its founding by Česká spořitelna (bank), which asked the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Rudolf, to name the building after him (and his Habsburg relative, the Prague resident Emperor Rudolf). The newly built embankment (today Aleš Embankment) and the adjacent Rudolf Footbridge bore his name.
In 1896, Antonín Dvořák conducted the first concert of the Czech Philharmonic, Prague's most important classical orchestra, in its largest, the Dvořák Hall.
THe Czechoslovak Chamber of Deputies met here from 1919 to 1939. Here, in 1920 and 1927, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was elected President of the Czechoslovak Republic.
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Orlík Cavalry Barracks – now District Court
Enormous Austrian barracks from the town's days as an Imperial fortress. It was built in the Classicist style in 1786–1787 during the reign of Emperor Joseph II as one of the examples of Enlightenment military rationalism. The ground floor with barrel vaults was used for stabling horses, as a reminder of this is several preserved stone watering holes in semicircular niches. The articulated façade has profiled cornices, a plinth and two entrances to the building are lined with stone blocks. Given cultural monument protection by the Czechoslovak state sometime before 1988
Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
(section of town south of and beneath the old town)
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baroque revival from the early 20th century
Rudolf Němec, architect
Na Kropáčce 30, seen here facing Velké náměstí, Hradec Králové, Czechia
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Velké náměstí (great square)
Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
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