Royal Palace

The origin of the famous Thirty Years War is here, due to the deffenestration of some catholic governors of the Hapsburg dinasty by the protestants, in 1618, beginning a savage conflict that asolated Central Europe.

The Vladislav Hall, of gothic style, is the most spectacular within the palace, where jousting competitions took place. You'll get to the Hall through a grandiose gothic staircase. It's 63 metre-long and 16 metre-wide, and has a notable vault.

Other dependencies within the palace are the Ball Game Hall, the medieval parliament and the All Saint's Chapel, gothic, but later reformed with renaissancist and baroque elements after a fire in the 16th-century.

 

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