Star Summer Palace
Letohrádek Hvězda, or the Star Summer Palace, is a Renaissance villa built in 1555-1558 that stands as the six-pointed centerpiece of a historic game reserve west of Prague’s center. The villa’s star-shaped plan gives both the building and the surrounding grounds their shared name, a distinctive feature you can notice upon approach. The game reserve was begun in 1530 by King Ferdinand I, with his son Archduke Ferdinand II proceeding to commission the villa, and the foundations laid on June 27, 1555, followed by completion a few years later. Today, the area has held national cultural monument status since 1962, preserving the villa, its battlefield context, and the landscape around it. Inside the basement, a model of the Battle of White Mountain—the nearby conflict that shaped Czech history—offers a tangible link to the site’s military memory. …
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