Ball Game Court by anmes

Photography • Architecture • posted on May 16, 2010

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Still in the Royal Garden. This building has the sgraffito decoration, worth a zoom to see the details and the date is 1569. The decoration was created by cutting a design through the wet top layer of plaster onto a contrasting undercoat. The ball game hall was used primarily for playing a form of real tennis, but when this went out of fashion the building was converted into stables. After the tulips of yesterday I read that this is where tulips from Turkey.brought to Prague by the king's ambassador, were first acclimatised to Europe before being taken to Holland