The Vrtba Garden in Prague is one of several fine High Baroque gardens in the Czech capital. It is listed for its historic cultural values by UNESCO.
The Vrtba Garden is situated on the slope of Petřín Hill in the Malá Strana section of the city. In the midst of an expansive moment in Prague's history during the 1710s and 1720s, the garden was laid out by František Maxmilián Kaňka, who was renovating the Vrtba palace for Jan Josef, Count of Vrtba. Though the palace has undergone extensive reconstructions in the succeeding centuries, the garden retained its Baroque style and the original statuary and sculptural decor by Matyáš Bernard Braun. Facing the Sala Terrena across a central pool is a matching aviary. Between 1990 and 1998 the Vrtba garden underwent structural conservation and extensive replanting and was reopened for public in June 1998. The formal clipped garden in the French taste laid out in clipped scrolling asymmetrical borders of boxwood in gravel on three terraced levels makes use of an irregular steep slope more characteristic of Italian garden sites, in a cramped space that was already densely built over when the garden was the garden is entered from the base, through a discreet gate in Karmelitská Street. It is often used as a venue for weddings, receptions and other celebrations.
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