Lanfranconi Palace Explained

Location:	Old Town, Bratislava
Location Country:	Slovakia
Coordinates:	48.14°N 17.1096°W
Building Type:	Palace

Lanfranconi Palace or Lafranconi Palace^{[1] [2]} is a neo-Renaissance representative bourgeois apartment house in Bratislava's Old Town, on the corner of Ludovita Štúr Square (number 1) and Vajanského nábreží. The building was built in 1876-1877 by Ignác Feigler on the site of the former salt office. The iron roof structure comes from the buildings of the Vienna World Exhibition.^{[3] [4]}

It was commissioned by Antonio Lanfranconi (or Antonio Lafranconi), but as it was built after his death, it was only used by his son Enea Grazioso Lanfranconi.

Today, the palace houses the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic.^[5]

References

1. Web site: Ústav dejín umenia SAV . 2023-09-14 . www.dejum.sav.sk.
2. Web site: Je správne pomenovanie Lafranconi alebo Lanfranconi? . 2023-09-14 . uniba.sk . sk-SK.
3. Book: last name, Helena . Bratislava : sprievodca : [história, vychádzky, pamiatky, informácie, plánky, fotografie, mapa] . Hančin . Vladimír . Hatalová . Mária . Šport . 1992 . 80-7096-202-X . 2. preprac. a dopl . Bratislava.
4. Book: Biografický lexikón Slovenska . Slovenská národná knižnica; Národný biografický ústav . 2013 . 978-80-8149-011-8 . V KmL . Martin.
5. Web site: Enea Grazioso Lanfranconi – taliansky inžinier Bratislavy – Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bratislava . 2023-09-14 . iicbratislava.esteri.it.