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There are several breathtaking buildings on Trída Spojencu Street. The villa of the lawyer Eduard Šrot is one of the most beautiful of them. The lawyer, an expert in Criminal Law, conveniently chose a plot near the Palace of Justice. Although his villa is almost thirty years newer than the buildings in Vídeňská Street, it also takes us far back in history.
In 1923, the Prague architect Ladislav Skřivánek designed a fascinating building which would stand out even in the middle of Renaissance Italy. The symmetrical villa is decorated with typical bossages, Renaissance “envelope” sgraffiti and text boxes with moral quotes from the works of Jan Neruda and Svatopluk Čech.
If the lot had been preserved in its original form, the impression of a Mediterranean villa would have been almost perfect. The building originally also included a large, geometrically designed garden with sculptural decoration and a pool, all of which unfortunately disappeared when a new building was later built on the site.
Under the communist regime, the villa was divided into several apartments.