The rotunda
A green dome.
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The Flower Garden is a formal Baroque garden in the town of Kroměříž in the Zlín Region of Moravia, about 34 km south of Olomouc and 57 km east of Brno in a straight line. UNESCO listed the gardens and castle of Kroměříž as a World Heritage Site in 1998 for their exceptionally well-preserved Baroque gardens. The castle was the main residence of the bishops, and from 1777 the archbishops, of Olomouc. In 1664 a bishop of the Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn family hired the architect Filiberto Lucchese to lay out the garden, and Giovanni Pietro Tencalla completed it after him. The castle holds an art collection rated the second finest in the country, including a painting by Titian. At the centre stands an octagonal rotunda with a green dome, surrounded by geometric gravel paths between precisely clipped hedges, flower beds and fountains. Along one side runs a long colonnade of white pillars lined with statues of mythological figures, and at the far end stand glasshouses. Visitors walk the paths and climb to the colonnade roof to see the garden's patterns from above, and inside the rotunda swings a Foucault pendulum. The large Castle Garden lies on the other side of town.
A green dome.
A rooftop viewpoint.
Geometric patterns.
Kroměříž, Zlín Region, Czechia
Yes, from the colonnade roof.
Yes, in the town centre with its large garden.