Ledebour garden, Historic garden in Malá Strana, Czech Republic

The Ledebour garden sits on a sloped terrain below Prague Castle in Malá Strana, featuring multiple tiered levels that step down the hillside. The grounds include an ornate hall with good acoustics, staircases, fountains, and plantings that link the different elevations together.

Jan Václav z Kolowrat laid out the garden in 1665, after the palace itself had been built in 1601 by joining two Renaissance houses. In 1787 Josef Krakovský z Kolowrat had palace and garden remodelled to Johann Ignaz Palliardi's design, which gave the terraced garden its present form and added the wall with the Hercules fountain. Count Adolf von Ledebur bought the property in 1852, and the garden was restored in 2016–2021.

The garden takes its name from Count Adolf von Ledebur, who bought the palace and garden in 1852. The lower parterre with its sala terrena, decorated with 1730 wall paintings of classical myths by Wenzel Lorenz Reiner, is used for concerts and social events.

The garden opens seasonally from spring through fall, with longer hours during the warmer months. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes since the grounds feature multiple staircases and sloped paths.

The open pavilion crowning the main axis is pentagonal, not octagonal, and the terraces below it are linked by steep symmetrical staircases. On the lower parterre, look for a well-preserved sundial and Jan Štursa's 1920 sculpture Dar nebes a země (Gift of Heaven and Earth).