Palác Hložků ze Žampachu, Baroque palace in Hradčany, Prague, Czech Republic

The Palác Hložků ze Žampachu is a one-storey, three-winged early Baroque palace on Kanovnická Street in Hradčany. Its six-bay south facade has paired windows and a low ground floor with painted rustication; the third axis from the left holds a Baroque portal with a stone cartouche reproducing the Hložek coat of arms (1995). A terrace between the courtyard wings links by stairs to the lower garden.

Gothic houses on the site burned down in 1541, and an early Renaissance house was built in the 1550s. In the 1680s Albrecht Hložek of Žampach, burgrave of Prague Castle, had it rebuilt in Baroque style; his descendants owned it until 1757. After 1798 auction sales and frequent 19th-century changes of owner, the Nostitz family lost it by expropriation in 1942.

The palace takes its name from Albrecht Hložek of Žampach, burgrave of Prague Castle, who had the Renaissance house rebuilt in the 1680s; his descendants held it until 1757. In the fronton of the Baroque portal on Kanovnická Street is a stone cartouche with a replica of the Hložek coat of arms, made in 1995.

The building sits in a steep neighborhood with cobblestone streets and historic lanes that require walking to explore. Public access is limited because it currently serves a diplomatic function.

The palace's vaulted cellars combine Renaissance and Baroque masonry, and the ground-floor rooms retain fragments of Baroque wall painting and a painted coffered ceiling. Painted ceilings also survive in the large hall and the so-called smoking salon on the first floor of the main wing.