Bellaria Summer Mansion
A rarely preserved Rococo garden mansion, the only one of its kind in the Czech Republic, underwent extensive renovation between 2023 and 2024.
In the underground floor of Bellaria, you can visit a Baroque kitchen and food preparation area with 18th-century lifts. The larger lift allowed food to be transported from the kitchen through three floors to the Upper Hall, while the smaller one, known as the 'magic table,' lifted food to the preparation area and then to the dining room after arrangement. Also of interest is the grotto, whose walls are decorated with stucco, thousands of shell fragments, pieces of glass, and mirrors. The walls of the halls in both upper floors are covered with murals by František Jakub Prokyš from the 18th century.
The predecessor of today's Bellaria, a pavilion on an elevated terrace by the northwest wall of the garden, was built between 1690 and 1692. The summer mansion, as we know it today in Rococo style, was rebuilt between 1755 and 1757. While the lower floor of the mansion remained almost unchanged, the addition of the second floor with an open gallery transformed the building in the spirit of Lower Austrian Rococo. A potential prototype seems to be the Upper Belvedere palace of Eugene of Savoy.