Vila Tereza, Neo-Renaissance villa in Žižkov, Prague, Czech Republic

Vila Tereza is a one-storey Neo-Renaissance building with a corner tower, standing in a garden at the corner of Italská and Vozová streets in Žižkov. The grounds also contain a gatehouse, an enclosing wall and a fountain with a metal sculpture of the goddess Tyche.

Jan Holejšovský, a civil surveyor from Královské Vinohrady, had the villa built in 1873 by Prague builder Josef Vevera. In 1885 Ing. Daniel Märky bought it, named it after his second wife Therese Appolonia, and had it rebuilt in Neo-Renaissance style by August 1886. From 1922 it housed the Soviet trade representation, the first official Soviet office in Czechoslovakia.

Daniel Märky named the villa after his second wife, Therese Appolonia, when he bought it in 1885. From 1922 the building housed the first Soviet official representation in Czechoslovakia, and left-leaning avant-garde artists such as Vítězslav Nezval and Julius Fučík visited it. A bilingual memorial plaque on the house records this period.

The building sits at a central intersection in Žižkov and is easy to reach on foot. The exterior facade is clearly visible from the street, though the interior garden is not open to visitors as the property serves official functions.

Daniel Märky, who bought the villa in 1885 and named it after his second wife Therese Appolonia, had a fountain with a metal allegorical figure of the goddess Tyche installed in the garden, and another at the main entrance. The rebuilding he commissioned was finished in August 1886.