It was in him in In 1650, Jan Amos Komenský stopped on his way and spent several days in the house. Another of the houses belonged in the 16th - 17th century. humen magnate Count Drugeth. Here at the end of the 17th century. the later legendary hussar commander and Marshal of France, Count Ladislav Berčéni, was born.
The main initiator of the reconstruction and construction of the palace was František Klobušický, a former royal tabular adviser. His son Štefan continued the magnificent reconstruction, begun under Count František Klobušický, and was finally completed by his widow Klára Kapyová. The result of the reconstruction was a representative two-storey palace in the late Baroque style (the so-called Louis XVI style) with a four-wing layout and a rectangular courtyard in the middle.
The floor of the street front is especially valuable, richly decorated with beautiful stucco scenes and ornaments with the coat of arms of the Klobušick family above the main portal. On the east side of the palace was a large park, reaching up to the walls. The garden was built in the manner of a French park.
Undoubtedly one of the most important events in the history of this aristocratic residence was the visit of the heir to the throne of Joseph II. in the summer of 1770, during which he received at the audience the high commanders of the Polish Confederates - opponents of the pro-Russian monarch Stanislav August - seated in Prešov. Today, the building is the seat of the Regional Court in Prešov.
Hlavná 2953/22
080 01 Prešov
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