Kinského zahrada, Public park on Petřín Hill in Prague, Czech Republic
Kinský Garden is a 17-hectare landscape park on the southern and southeastern slopes of Petřín Hill in Smíchov, Prague, at 200–315 m above sea level. It has a flat lower section with the Empire-style summerhouse and the Švýcárna building, and a wooded slope with two ornamental ponds. A stone and concrete retaining wall borders the central pond, and wooden posts and rails line a dirt path.
Marie Rosa Kinská bought the plots in 1798 and 1799 to plant an orchard; her grandson Rudolf Kinský enlarged the land and had an English park and the Empire-style summerhouse built between 1827 and 1831. After his death his widow Vilemína Alžběta Kinská directed the work, and the layout by František Höhnel was finished in 1849, with Friedrich Wünscher's changes giving the park its final form in 1860.
The summerhouse has housed the Ethnographic Museum since 1902, when collections gathered mainly for the 1895 Ethnographic Exhibition were moved in. In 1922 the museum became the ethnographic department of the National Museum. Its displays of folk dress, crafts and everyday objects come from across Bohemia.
The park has multiple entrances connecting streets at lower elevations to the higher areas of Petřín Hill. Comfortable footwear is recommended since the walking paths go uphill through the property.
Some 380 metres of water tunnels were cut to bring water from the upper slopes of Petřín; the longest, the Železitá štola, runs 100 metres. The Zámecká štola supplied the summerhouse with its best water, while the V kaštánkách tunnel fed the horse stables.
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