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This is nice palace with pink facade - Kinsky palace, baroque epoch. The nicest epoch in Central Europe. At that time people started decorat their houses, facades and interiors with gold and stucco, sculptures and bas-reliefs. The nobles decorated their clothes too. Ladies wore the crinolines, the corsets, wide skirts. Use to made high hairstyles, wore the perukes and decorated with a flowers their outfits.
So, back to the Kinsky palace. During the reconstruction, the reenactors found the sceleton of young boy into the wall. He was a victum of horrible ancient ritual. It was believed, in order to building would stay for ever - it needs to get the soul. But from where to get a soul? That’s why stollen people, or homeless without any relatives were immured alive into the wall. After 3 days the death occurred because of thirsty. And the soul should stuck into the building.
Over time Kinsky dynasty was taken almost all their property to the state, including this palace too. Currently there is a museum of temporary exebitions.
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