Jump to content

Zois Mansion

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 88.117.2.45 (talk) at 20:11, 10 February 2010 (add.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The Zois Palace on the banks of the Ljubljanica river in Ljubljana.

Zois Palace (Slovene: Zoisova palača) is a mansion in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

The mansion was built between 1765 and 1770, combining older buildings, in the neoclassicist style. It is located on the bank of the Ljubljanica river. It served as residence of Baron Žiga Zois, a leading figure of Enlightenment in the Slovene Lands of the Austrian monarchy and supporter of the revival of Slovene culture and literature[1]. Between the 1780s and the 1800s, the mansion was used as the venue of the Slovene intellectual élite, which included the playwright and historian Anton Tomaž Linhart, poet and journalist Valentin Vodnik, philologians Jurij Japelj and Blaž Kumerdej, and linguist Jernej Kopitar.

In the palace's yard stands an old fountain. Zois's tombstone is etched into the wall facing the yard.

See also

References

  1. ^ Ljubljana tourism

Sources

Stub icon

This article about a Slovenian building or structure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about a palace is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zois_Mansion&oldid=343211053"