The First Czech Baroque Landscape: Ji?ín

The primary and secondary axes forming the composed landscape of Ji?ín. The axes cross at the summer palace, approximately 2 kilometers from the palace at the town center.

The primary and secondary axes forming the composed landscape of Ji?ín. The axes cross at the summer palace, approximately 2 kilometers from the palace at the town center.

The Baroque period of landscape development in the Czech lands began at Ji?ín in 1621, when Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583 -1634) acquired the property that he developed into a grand, composed landscape. The photo above shows the long axis which extends from the Monastery at Valdice through the palace in the center of the old town of Ji?ín, to the top of Veliš hill with its medieval castle ruins.  Thus the primary axis at Ji?ín joins sacred site, through summer palace and grounds, through main palace at the center of the town, to medieval ruins.   The secondary axis crosses the composition at the summer palace, joining the formal gardens to the right of the primary axis line, with the sacred site of the chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene at the top of Zebín hill.

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