Jiráskova vila, Renaissance villa in Malešice district, Prague, Czech Republic

Jiráskova vila is a Neo-Renaissance chateau on the western slope of Tábor Hill in Malešice, Prague 9, at Pod Táborem 17/4. Its garden facade has a terrace on the axis, reached by a two-arm staircase. The building forms the core of the botanical garden of SOŠ Malešice, which contains tropical greenhouses and rare woody species.

A guard hut and tool shed stood here before Rudolf Engbert rebuilt the house in 1889 into a pseudo-Renaissance chateau with a terrace and double staircase. Industrialist Antonín Jirásko bought it in the early 20th century and had František Thomayer lay out the park in 1920. During the war the Gestapo and a German military hospital used the building, though some sources place the hospital in the school opposite. The villa was expropriated in 1946 and passed to Prague a year later.

Locals call the villa after Antonín Jirásko, the coal merchant and furniture-factory owner who bought it in the early 20th century; the name stuck even though Rudolf Engbert rebuilt the house in 1889. The grounds became a school botanical garden after 1990 and now serve the gardening department of the Jarov vocational school.

The grounds form the school botanical garden of SOŠ Malešice, entered at Pod Táborem 17/4 on the western slope of Tábor Hill. The terrain drops into the valley of the Malé Rokytka, so paths run over sloping ground with views through the plantings. The tropical greenhouses, rebuilt in 1985, and the villa, now a horticultural workplace of SOŠ Jarov, are not open to visitors.

The villa's park was laid out in 1920 by František Thomayer, the garden architect behind Prague's Karlovo náměstí park and projects in Vienna and Paris. Some of the rare trees he planted survive today, and the tropical greenhouses were rebuilt in 1985.