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Černín Palace

This enormous and unprepossessing structure, with its imposing grey façade, articulated by an unbroken line of 30 pillars, was commissioned in 1669 by Humprecht Johann Černín, imperial ambassador to Venice and its construction expenses ruined the family. Gestapo interrogations were later conducted here during the Nazi occupation. Its curse surfaced again in 1948, when foreign minister Jan Masaryk, the last major political obstacle to Klement Gottwald’s communist coup, fell to his death from an upstairs window a few days after the takeover.

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