Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž
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How it came to be
The town of Kroměříž belonged to the bishops of Olomouc from the 13th century. They lost it in the Hussite wars and only regained it in the 1470s. In 1500 Bishop Stanislav Thurzo replaced the old castle with a more comfortable late Gothic residence with Renaissance details.
In 1643, during the Thirty Years' War, the Swedish army sacked the castle. In 1664 a bishop from the Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn family commissioned Filiberto Lucchese to rebuild it in the Baroque style, and after Lucchese died in 1666 Giovanni Pietro Tencalla rebuilt the palace and completed the formal garden. The Pleasure Garden, about 14.5 ha, was laid out in 1665-1675 and is entered through a 244 m arcaded gallery.
A fire in March 1752 gutted the castle, and Bishop Hamilton commissioned Franz Anton Maulbertsch and others to decorate the halls. The Castle Garden, about 58 ha, was reshaped as a landscape park in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and a colonnade for sculptures from Pompeii went up in 1846. The castle's art collection includes Titian's Flaying of Marsyas. It was inscribed in 1998.
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