Potocki Palace (Lviv)

The Potocki Palace in Lviv (Polish pronunciation: [pɔˈtɔt͡skʲi], Ukrainian: Палац Потоцьких, Palats Pototskykh; Polish: Pałac Potockich) was built in the 1880s as an urban seat of Alfred Józef Potocki, former Minister-President of Austria. No cost was spared to make it the grandest nobleman's residence in the city. It is located on the Copernicus Street 15.

At the start of the 20th century, the parkland gave way to a network of apartment buildings. It was confiscated by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1940. The palace itself was adapted for holding wedding ceremonies in 1972 and subsequently underwent restoration.

In the 2000s, the President of Ukraine appropriated the palace as one of his residences. Some of its architectural motifs were borrowed by the next-door exhibition hall (inaugurated in 1996).

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Potocki Palace (Lviv) staat op plaats 1.173 van 5.793 in de bekendheidsranglijst van deze atlas en op plaats 14 van de 120 die de atlas in Oekraïne in kaart brengt. Gebouwd in 1880, en daarmee ouder dan 6% van de gedateerde bouwwerken in de atlas — een van de 407 bouwwerken in de atlas die uit de 19e eeuw stammen. Zie hoe dat zich verhoudt in de kastelenstatistiek.

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