Vratislavská zahrada, Baroque garden in Prague 1, Czech Republic.
Vratislavská Garden is the early Baroque garden of the Vratislav Palace at Tržiště 366/13 in Prague's Lesser Town. It rises southward up the slope toward the Seminářská Garden in three terraces, reaching 215 m above sea level on 0.2 ha. Two wall pavilions stand above the staircase, and a belvedere closes the highest level.
The eastern house on the site was first recorded in 1591, when cooper Václav Svatoš inherited it with a small garden. In 1671 the property passed to Kryštof František Vratislav of Mitrovice; construction of the garden's first phase, with its second terrace, grotto and Sala terrena, followed in 1670–71, and a second phase in the 1720s. The family held it until nationalisation in 1948.
The garden is also called Mitrovická zahrada, after the Vratislav of Mitrovice family, who bought the property in 1671 and held it until nationalisation in 1948. It lies between the Vrtbovská Garden to the east and the Schönbornská Garden to the west. Since 2008 the American Center has used the grounds, which are closed to the public.
The garden is not open to the public as it is privately held and managed by the American Center for cultural programming. Access is limited to special events hosted at the venue throughout the year.
A 1993 rescue dig in the lower garden, ahead of an underground garage, documented 109 graves; the burial ground continues west beneath the neighbouring Schönborn Garden. The same excavation found three clay-lined pits filled with slag and iron ore, remains of a small iron-working area from around the mid-10th century.
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