The Belvédère of the queen Anne ( Belvedér Královny Anny ) known as also Palais of royal summer ( Královský létohradek ) is built in 1537 for Anne Jagellon, queen of Bohemia and wife of Ferdinand Ier of the Holy roman Empire, in the royal Jardin of the Castle of Prague.

Work of Paolo della Stella, it is the purest expression of the architecture of the Italian Renaissance in Central Europe. The ground floor is surrounded by a richly decorated loggia of which the proportions point out that of the gantries of Brunelleschi. The upper floor is a posterior addition (1569) due to Bonifác Wohlmut and shelters a ballroom under a splendid ducted roof.

The Renaissance garden is decorated of a “singing fountain” (the water drops while falling into the bronze basins make them resound) drawn in 1568 by Francesco Terzio and carried out by the founder of Brno, Tomáš Jaroš. In the beginning, these gardens are a place of acclimatization of exotic plants, a field of fire and a reception point in the open air.

A house of the Play of palm is located there. Decorated splendid Sgraffite S on a frontage treated out of gantry, it is the work of the architect Bonifác Wohlmut (1569).

At present, the View-point is used as showroom or reception point for the needs for the presidency for the Czech Republic.

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