Palác Kinských, Renaissance palace in Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic
Palác Kinských is a Renaissance palace at Nerudova 249/15 in Malá Strana. Its three-storey street facade has four pairs of grouped windows, an early Baroque sandstone portal and three arched portals of former shops, with five Renaissance gables above and three parallel saddle roofs behind.
The front wing was rebuilt after the fire of 1541, and the Renaissance street facade with its smooth plaster and five gables dates from the second half of the 16th century. In 1637 the house passed to Rudolf of Waldstein, and the Baroque alterations after 1663 are attributed to Anselm Lurago. After 1676 the owner František Oldřich Kinský enlarged it with the so-called Hansturk Hotel.
The house is also called Marštalkovský dům or Dům u Zlaté koruny. Its ground floor keeps three arched portals of former small shops, and the rear wing was pierced toward the garden in the 19th century, when the palace was rented out mainly for housing.
The palace stands at Nerudova 249/15 in Malá Strana, its three-storey facade facing the street. The building is used by the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament to accommodate deputies, so the interiors are not open to the public; the Renaissance gables and the early Baroque sandstone portal are best seen from Nerudova Street.
The rear wing's western half likely rests on the former Malá Strana town wall, and Gothic masonry survives in the ground floor of the street tract. The front section was rebuilt after the fire of 1541, so medieval stone and Renaissance work sit in one building.
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