At the place where the famous Battle of White Mountain (Bílá hora) took place in 1620, today we find a beautiful English park with rich alleys. The whole area is dominated by the original Renaissance building of the summer house, which has the shape of a six-pointed star and after which the park is named.
Letohrádek Hvězda is one of the most mysterious buildings in Prague. According to ancient legends, a sacred oak tree was supposed to stand on the site of the Star. In front of which a fire was burning, where pagan priests threw herbs that were supposed to make them prophetic dreams. In addition, the Star was built at the intersection of energetic earth lines that our ancestors had known for a long time.
The Hvězda Summer Palace was built by Ferdinand of Habsburg for his wife Anna around 1555. He conceived the castle very thoughtfully: he was very interested in art, alchemy and religion, he was familiar with the principles of harmony, proportion and symmetry, and above all he was fascinated by numerical symbolism.
Its geometric design (‘hvězda’ means ‘star’ in Czech) refers to the mystical properties of the number six, traditionally a symbol of the union of heaven and earth. The foundation date, 1555, is likely to have been chosen as a multiple of 311, the year of the Edict of Toleration of Christians by the Roman emperor Galerius.
The Hexagram, the six-pointed star, is formed by joining two equilateral triangles (two opposing forces) to create mutual harmony. In the very center of the building there is not only excellent acoustics, but at the same time you feel interesting energy here, which supposedly supplies life force and awakens enlightenment. To strengthen the energy significance, the four levels of the building are inspired by the four basic elements – fire, water, earth and air.
Another instersting fact is that the number of rooms in the floors corresponds to the year of foundation (from top to bottom it is 1, 5, 5 and 5 rooms).
All the floors of the palace were obviously meant to be a symbol of the steps that the alchemists of the time had to take to achieve the desired result: the production of the Philosopher's Stone. According to some researchers, it is on the ceiling frescoes that we will one day discover the instructions on how to produce this mythical stone.
