Sights > Religious monuments > Olomouc - arcibiskupský palác
17.3.2010 Zuzka / Number of presentasion: 182
Wurmova 9, 779 00 Olomouc
GPS: 49° 35' 45" N 17° 15' 39" E
49.5958071 49.5958071
Tel.: +420 585 514 111 /
A complex of a princely castle from the early 12th century, rebuilt after the fire in 1204 into a Romanesque stone castle, after the murders of the Przemyslid family left to the bishops as a capitulary residence. The castle including the cathedral rebuilt and enlarged by Bruno of Schauenburk. In the 17th and 18th centuries the preserved parts of the castle were composed into the clerical buildings. A preserved representative Romanesque palace, rebuilt in the Late Gothic style in the neighbourhood of the Basilica of St. Wenceslas. The palace has two and three-light Romanesque windows, a fireplace, original decoration, which is unique in the Czech Republic. A permanent exposition: Ravenská mozaika. The Romanesque parts of the capitulary palace were discovered in the late 19th century.