Šternberský Palace
Baroque palace of Old Master paintings, left half-built for a century before becoming a national art gallery.
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This guide to Šternberský Palace in Prague follows the hillside residence a Bohemian count began building in 1699, only to die in 1708 with half of it still bare brick. It traces the unlikely uses the unfinished palace saw over the next century: a workspace for Bohemian scientists, then a charity shelter, then a military school through two world wars. The south wing itself stood unfinished for more than a hundred years before it was finally completed.
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