Rogans Palace is a very recognizable and beautiful Strasbourg building, which has great cultural and historical value not only in the city but in the whole region . It is a baroque palace built in the very center of the city on Dvortsovaya Square, in the 30-40 years . of the 18th century commissioned by Cardinal de Rohan-Subisa . Bishop was then a suzerain, that is, in his hands were concentrated both spiritual and secular power, and therefore his residence did not look modest monastic dwelling . The project was managed by the first king architect de Kott, and he created in place of a whole block of buildings demolished for this, in fact, a copy of the palaces of that era .

The lush and luxurious palace served as a home for many generations of Rogans, and at one time sheltered people of royal families - Louis XV and Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and Josephine. By the way, even today there are not the last faces of the world political arena: for example, the meeting of Nicolas Sarkozy with Barack Obama took place in 2009.

After Alsace went to Germany, the city university was placed in the palace, and later - museum collections .. In the Second World War, the Roganov Palace suffered so much from the air raids that the restoration of it took about 50 years . But today the guests of Strasbourg can admire the palace in all its former splendor: the Corinthian columns at the main entrance, pink and yellow slabs of the sandstone facade, sculptures and vases, the inner courtyard balustrade and attics on the roofs . The Rogans Palace now embodies the metropolitan hypostasis of Strasbourg , giving birth to associations not with Alsatian cute comfort, but with almost Parisian royal majesty, albeit on a smaller scale .

Three of the ten most interesting museums of Strasbourg are located in the Rogans Palace. First of all it is a museum of fine arts on the second floor of the building. Here are collected art paintings of European masters from the Middle Ages and ending with the second half of the 19th century. This is the primitivism of Memling, and the Renaissance works of Raphael, Botticelli, and the mannerisms of El Greco; these are the great masterpieces of Van Dyck, Rubens, Goya and the romantic works of Courbet, Engra, Koro

The second museum under the roof of the Rogans palace is a museum of decorative and applied art . He is interesting primarily in that it consists of two parts . The first is the restored royal and cardinal chambers with all decoration and interior details . The second includes a collection of decorative arts and crafts of local masters from the second half of the 17th century to the middle of 19 . This includes a collection of ceramics and amazing jewelery, exquisite furniture, paintings and statues, art forging and watches . A separate pride of the museum - a collection of old clockwork dolls and mechanisms .

Finally, in the basement of the palace and basements is the archaeological museum, one of the largest in country. You will be able to undertake the deepest immersion in the history of the region, up to a period of 600 thousand years BC. e. and until the first millennium BC. e. Here are the finds made in Alsace relating to the Paleolithic and Neolithic epochs, the bronze and iron centuries, the periods of Gallo-Roman power and the sovereignty of the Merovingian civilization.

Address: Strasbourg, Place du Chateau, 2.

Rogans Palace

Rogans Palace in the evening

Cabinet, Rogan's Palace

Interior, Rogan Palace