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 Hluboka nad Vltavou by globetrott
Later-on it was rebuilt several times and finally bought in 1661 by Jan Adolf I. von Schwarzenberg ( 1615-1685 ).
The Schwarzenberg family had German and Dutch origin - this might be one of the reasons, why you see so plenty of great Dutch paintings and tapisseries inside the castle.
Jan Adolf II. von Schwarzenberg ( 1779-1888) and his wife Eleonora ( von Liechtenstein ) was a great politician and used to travel often to England and finally decided to rebuild their castle in Tudor-style, similar to Windsor castle.
And also the park around the castle reminds a lot of the famous english parks : In 1851 more than 11000 trees were planted, and plenty of them are still to be seen in the park around the castle, beeing almost as high as the castle today.
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 Kratochvile - west of
C.Budejovice / Budweis by globetrott
Kratochvile was built for Vilem von Rosenberg, who was a rich merchant and wanted to have a summercastle built in the Italian Renaissance style.
So he ordered this castle from his italian architect Baltazar Maggi di Arogno, who had a lot of problems to build the castle on the muddy ground.
He finally used the same method as in Venice, with wooden trunks making a perfect foundation for the castle.
Today you see the castle in the centre, surrounded by a moat and the gardens that are surrounded by a wall .
Besides of the great chapel the ceilings of the castle are the very best part of it.
You would not expect such a big variety of excellent ceilings , when you see the rather simple architecture of the castle from outside.
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 S4Rozemberk nad Vltavou /
Rosenburg an der Moldau by globetrott
Rozemberk nad Vltavou is just a small village of maybe 1500 inhabitants today, but it obviously had some strategic importance in medieval times, because 2 castles were built there and still dominate the panorama.
When visiting the castles, you have to leave your car down in the village and walk up the hill.
The very best attraction of Rozmberk is in my opinion the lovely place, where it was built along the river Vltava / Moldau.
The river goes very slow and you have the feeling the time stands still in Rozemberk, with only a very few cars in the streets and almost no tourists at all.
Rozemberk nad Vltavou is a perfect place for a quiet and peaceful vacation, and it still has really cheap prices in the restaurants - about half of the prices you have to pay in the touristy town of Cesky Krumlov / Böhmisch Krumau, just beeing 10 km to the north...
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 Pernstejn - 30 km north of
Brno / Brünn by globetrott
The castle was built on top of a rock and its fortifications included several walls with seperate gates, so the enemies could just conquer one of the gates maybe, but would have needed not get through many more gates before they would be able to really conquer the castle.
The inner-courts of the castle almost look like an ordinary town with buildings around a townsquare.
But of course, these houses are built like walls on the backside.
The totally covered bridge between the castle and a seperate tower is certainly a masterpiece of medieval architecture.
This corridor-bridge was made in a hight of about 20 meters - just imagine how it was done without modern cranes and machinery.
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 Bilna - 80km north of Prague by globetrott
Almost all of the area around Bilina was used for surface-mining of coal and the landscape looks mostly terrible without trees, but some of the old towns remained and were great places for a stop-over.
The castle is privately owned today, but on the main-square you may still see lots of beautiful houses and prices are really cheap for shopping and restaurants.
In the centre of my picture-combination you may see Boren a mountain of vulcanic origin, 539meters high.
You may walk up this mountain and find a restaurant there on top.
You may take the train to Bilina or drive on Road Nr. 13 / E442 Leave a Comment
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 Trebon / Wittingau - not far
from C.Budejovice by globetrott
Trebon is mainly known for its carps, growing up in the many lakes around town.
For the tourists they have a perfect baroque townsquare, a lovely castle and great possibilities for hiking and easy biking in the flat landscape.
Right in the centre of town the castle of Trebon was built by italian architects in 1562 for the Rosenberg-family.
In 1660 it became a property of the Schwarzenberg family, who rebuilt a part of the castle.
The big castle with a total of 4 courts has only a few rooms that are worth seeing for the ordinary tourists, some rooms are used as a gallery today, and the biggest part of the castle holds the state-archives and old documents of the Rozemberk-family.
At a few places you may still see the original medieval town-wall and moat of Trebon / Wittingau.
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 Lake Sarka by cabessas
There are two zones – normal zone and a nude zone; but to reach the normal zone, you must go through the nude zone. Czech people like to play!
Take 26 to the Citibank building, go behind and to the left. about 1km. Leave a Comment
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 Detenice - 45km north-east of
Prague by globetrott
That is a pity, because the castle is really beautiful and shows also a great interior and plenty of medieval weapons, cannons and iron armours.
A part of the hotel is used as a hotel and restaurant with excellent cuisine for reasonable prices.
The castle may be visited by guided tours only !
Outside of the castle you may visit another funny restaurant, decorated like a western-saloon.
You may take the train to Detenice or road #280 Leave a Comment
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 Lednice / Eisgrub - south of
Brno / Brünn by globetrott
This type of "Tudor-style-castle" became quite popular in Bohemia and Moravia in the end of the 19th century and Lednice / Eisgrub was the first of its kind and others copied this style ( like Hluboka nad Vltavou / close to Ceske Budejovice / Budweis )
Back in the 13th century the castle Lednice was founded next to the castle Valtice, also belonging to the Lichtensteins.
They built a perfect system of canals and artificial lakes - you may still see it, when walking through the parks of Lednice.
In the 17th century a baroque castle was built and partly restored in the neo-gothic Tudor-style in the 19th centrury.
The Lichtenstein family had an important position in the austrian court and were granted certain rights, that allowed them to have their own independant county of Liechtenstein.
Still today the Duke of Lichtenstein owns a big palais in Vienna, and I may highly recommend to see his famous art gallery in "Palais Liechtenstein" !!
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 Lysice - 25km north of Brno /
Brünn by globetrott
The village of Lysice is rather small, but the castle is well worth a visit, especially as it is beautifully restored and looks great with it's wonderful garden and an interesting castle-interior.
Photography inside the castle
is possible against a fee of 200 Kronen (6,5 €)
Visiting Lysice will take a bit more than 1 hour for the guided tour through the castle.
Marie von Ebner Eschenbach ( born as Countess Maria Dubska ) was the niece of one of the owners of the castle.
You may see an exhibition about this famous austrian Novelist in one of the buildings outside of the castle, in combination with a collection of clocks.
The enrance-fee for this museum is 20,- Kronen ( ca. 0,70 $ )
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