Queen Anne's Summer Palace
Italian Renaissance summer palace with a keel-shaped copper roof and a singing bronze fountain.
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This guide to Queen Anne's Summer Palace in Prague opens with Ferdinand the First, Holy Roman Emperor, still clutching his dead wife's portrait seventeen years after her passing. It traces the Renaissance palace he began building for Anne Jagiellon around 1538 at the edge of Prague Castle's Royal Garden, and the thirteen more years of construction that followed her death in childbirth in 1547. Listen for the bronze fountain out front, cast after her death, its lower bowl still ringing when water strikes it.
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