Tři Grácie
Attraction · Czechia
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An early-19th-century garden pavilion with colonnade and a statue group of the Three Graces, standing on the south bank of Prostřední pond. Now a protected monument; exterior access only.
The pavilion was sited to face a companion building across Prostřední pond, one of several staged sightlines Prince Jan I of Liechtenstein built into the Lednice-Valtice estate. Twelve Ionic columns curve into a horseshoe around a small marble hall, and niches in the back wall hold ten allegorical figures of the arts and sciences, carved by Josef Klieber. Out front stands the real centrepiece, and it predates the building by a quarter-century: a limestone statue group Johann Martin Fischer carved in 1799 for the gardens of Lednice Castle. It only came to this clearing once the castle grounds needed the space for a new greenhouse.
What you see
A horseshoe of twelve pale Ionic columns opens onto Prostřední pond, its curve framing a straight sightline across the water to Rybniční zámeček on the far shore.
Practical
Free parking sits right by the pavilion, reached directly by road or via the red-marked trail from Valtice, about 5 km away.
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