Ráckeve - Savoy Palace

Following his glorious campaigns Prince Eugen of Savoy, to whom the Habsburgs were indebted for the victory in 1697 over the Turks at Zenta, built a summer residence in Ráckeve (1700/02), in the center of his estates. He engaged no less an architect than Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (1668-1745), who ranks alongside Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach as the most important representative of Austrian High Baroque and went down in art history as the architect behind the Belvedere in Vienna. Ráckeve Palace was his first great commission, so to speak his début as a builder of magnificent mansions, from which he went on to command extensive knowledge. The palace (known as "House of Architecture" today) is situated north of the Danube bridge and