Munich - Palais Porcia

The Baroque palace at Kardinal-Faulhaber-Strasse No. 12, now the premises of the Bayerische Vereinsbank, was built by Enrico Zuccali in 1693 for Count Fugger. Together with Montgelas-Palais and the Archbishop's Palace it gives this part of the city its distinctive character. It was the first building in Munich modeled on the Italian palaces of the Baroque period. In 1731 the Elector Karl Albrecht presented the palace to his mistress Countess Moravitzka, later Princess Porcia, and in 1736 François Cuvilliés remodeled it in Roccoco style.