Great villas of Central Bohemia

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The publication presents 57 architecturally significant or interesting gems of family housing, which were created from the middle of the 19th century to the present in the territory of the Central Bohemian Region. The publication completes the edition series of Famous Villas of the Regions, which gradually presented architecturally interesting objects throughout the republic. In the past one hundred and fifty years, an unusually numerous and valuable collection of villa architecture was born in Central Bohemia. Central Bohemian villas have no equivalent counterpart in other regions of the Czech Republic. From the sixties of the nineteenth century, more affluent Praguers - the "villagers" - began to move to the new villas - "summer resorts" - in these resorts. The book tells the history of ten important villas. In it we find Roztoky, Všenory, Dobřichovice, Černošice, Řevnice, Jevany, Nespeky, Nouzov u Unhoště, joined by Lidice and Vonoklasy as less common innovations of the old theme of a villa settlement. Whether they are located in resorts or in the garden districts of larger Central Bohemian cities, villas from this region offer us an attractive display of variations of this type of building presented by the most famous architects of the last two centuries.