Archbishop's Summer Palace (Bratislava)
The Archbishop's Summer Palace (Slovak Letný arcibiskupský palác ) is a baroque building in Bratislava . In it is the seat of the Slovak government and it is north of the old town near the Grassalkovich Palace , on the west side of the large square Námestie slobody (German Freedom Square ).
history
The palace was built in 1614 by the primate Ferenc Forgách as the three-winged Renaissance summer residence of the Hungarian archbishop, since Gran was occupied by the Ottomans in 1543 . The Austrian architect Franz Anton Hillebrandt converted the building into a baroque palace with rococo decorations and fences between 1761 and 1765 . The Viennese sculptor Georg Raphael Donner had his workshop in the garden of the house .
After the archbishop's seat was relocated from Pressburg to Gran, the palace with the palace garden and many decorations and statues became increasingly neglected, and from 1859 it was used as a hospital until 1939. It was then converted into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the First Slovak Republic and after the end of World War II it was the seat of the government of the Slovak Socialist Republic.
The renovated palace with an English park has been the seat of the Slovak government since the 1990s .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 9 ″ N , 17 ° 6 ′ 34 ″ E