Wallenstein Garden

Albrecht von Wallenstein, the most powerful general of the Thirty Years' War, had some twenty houses torn down to build his palace between 1623 and 1630. Today it houses the Czech Senate, and its Baroque garden opens to the public in season.

At the end of the parterre is the sala terrena, a huge three-arched loggia that hosts summer concerts. The bronze statues are copies of works by Adriaen de Vries that the Swedes carried off in 1648. There is a pond with an island, free-roaming peacocks and an artificial dripstone wall in which you can make out faces and animals.