The original Renaissance fortress was reconstructed in 1822-1825 by Antonín Libštejnský of Kolovrat into its present form of an Empire style chateau. Until 1945, the chateau served as a summer residence for the Kolovrat family and later on housed the Institute for Youth Social care. In the 1990s it was returned to its original owners.
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Černíkovice Chateau

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Three-winged Classical chateau built in the late 17th century on the site of a former fortress on a promontory above the river Bela. It is surrounded by a ten hectare park with numerous beautiful and rare trees. The chateau owner created a very interesting gallery and concert hall here in 2012. The main wing functions as an exhibition space, where even the original parquet flooring from the 17th century was partially restored. The Hunting Hall is another room, where concerts are held.
http://east-bohemia.info/

Kvasiny Chateau

An Early Baroque chateau of the Kolowrat family, adjusted and enlarged according to the project by J. Santini in the 18th century.
A French park. Historical interiors with period furnishings, the art collection of the Kolowrat family. A stud with an exposition of sculptor K.Hladík. Exhibitions of modern art from the collections of the Orlická galerie. The collection of the Kolowrat family belongs to the biggest historical picture-galleries in our country.
http://czechtourism.com/

Rychnov nad Kněžnou Chateau

Častolovice Chateau is one of the most beautiful renaissance chateaus in the Czech Republic. It is privately owned by Countess Sternbergová, so you will see what it is like for a noble family to rule a chateau. What can you expect in the chateau’s chambers? A permanent exhibition of the chateau includes twenty rooms with historical furniture from the time of the Renaissance until the Biedermeier period. Specific beauty of the chateau is created by the textiles, numerous personal belongings, photographs and flowers. What could you do after you have looked around the breathtaking chateau exhibition? You can relax in the beautiful courtyard with a fountain and exotic plants and animals. You can listen to the sound of pleasant chamber music. You can visit the café and have a delicious coffee and cake. If you are hungry there is a chateau restaurant. Children will love the playground or animal farm where they will see various different species of exotic animals which they can feed.
A welcome addition to the chateau is the tour for the blind and visually impaired. The tour takes one hour. The tours for the blind must be booked in advance. The blind can come into contact with art and history through haptic perception. The chateau is partially accessible for the physically disabled – the park, restaurant and sanitary facilities are wheelchair access and the chateau is equipped with a stair climber and partially with an elevator. In the future the chateau will provide full wheelchair access.
http://hkregion.cz/

Častolovice Chateau

The son of Prince Ferdinand, Count Josef Kinský, had this Empire style chateau built in 1829-1833 as the family residence. A reception room and library were built on the elevated ground floor; the first floor contained residential spaces.The Kostelec new chateau is one of the best Empire structures of its kind in the country. The chateau is surrounded by an English park, which has now been declared a nature preserve.
http://eaglemountains.cz/

Kostelec nad Orlicí Castle

Originally the fortified Renaissance residence of the Mladot family of Solopysky from the end of the 16th century, built on the site of a Gothic fortress and reconstructed in 1736-1739 as a Baroque chateau. Skalka is known as the scene of Jirásek's novel Darkness.
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Skalka Chateau (Podbřezí)

A late Renaissance chateau was built at the end of the 16th cent, in the place of a Gothic fortress. At the end of the 17th cent, adapted in the early Baroque style, agricultural buildings were added. Exhibition of historical furniture. The chateau is surrounded by a park with rare trees and shrubs.
http://waymarking.com/

Doudleby nad Orlicí Chateau

The place was first mentioned in 1068 by Cosmas of Prague as a fortified settlement. Later a Gothic castle was built in its location. In 1425 the castle was conquered by East Bohemian Hussites and later it was reconstructed. The round Well Tower is the only still existing part of the original medieval castle.
In 1495 the domain of Opočno was bought by the family Trčka of Lípa. Vilém Trčka of Lípa, who undertook a journey to Italy in 1551, rebuilt the palace in the Renaissance style between 1560–67. In this time the new Renaissance arcades were built after Italian examples. Vilém then rebuilt also the original chapel of St. Andrew into the new Church of the Holy Trinity which was planned for the burials of the Trčka family. In 1602 a summer pavilion was built by Jan Rudolf Trčka overlooking the valley of the valley Zlatý potok (German: Goldbach) and he also founded a new garden around the summer house.
After the murder of Adam Erdman Trčka (together with Albrecht of Wallenstein) in Cheb (German: Eger) in 1634 and the death of his father in the same year, the Trčka family died out in the male line. Opočno was confiscated and the Emperor Ferdinand II allowed the Colloredo family to buy the property for 51,456 Rhenish guilders. Rudolf Colloredo von Walsee was a general of the Imperial army during the Thirty Years' War. In the 1690s the palace, especially its southern wing, was reconstructed after a fire under Hieronymous Colloredo von Walsee. In this time the chapel of St. Anne in the southern wing got its present appearance. These Baroque changes were carried out also by the architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi.
Since then the Colloredos have substantially modified the chateau and even founded a 22-hectare (54-acre) English garden with rare trees, ponds and waterfalls. In 1895 the exceptionally valuable and large family painting gallery was brought to Opočno from Prague.
During the World War II, the owners of Opočno Castle, the family of Colloredo-Mansfeld, opposed the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, therefore their Castle was confiscated in 1942 by Nazi Germany. After the war Opočno Castle passed to possession of the Czechoslovak state and because of the subsequent Communist rule it could not be returned to the Colloredo-Mansfeld family that emigrated in 1948 for fear of persecutions by the Communist government. First in 2003 the Czech courts decided to return Opočno Castle to the Colloredo-Mansfeld family, but in 2007 the decision was reversed with regard to the castle and its collections, while the farmland was returned. In 2014 the Czech Supreme Court ordered a new trial concerning the unresolved restitution claims of the Colloredo-Mansfeld family.

Opočno Chateau

Potštejn Castle is one of the most extensive ruins in the Czech Republic. The fortifications, castle gateways, and chapel are preserved. The castle palace has been reconstructed. Picturesque surroundings.
While only ruins remain today, Potštejn at one time was one of the largest and most important castles in the country. The castle changed owners many times after its founding in the 13th century. Important among these from a historical as well as a literary perspective was the Count Harbuval de Chamaré, who searched unsuccessfully for treasure at the castle for twenty years. However, the writer Alois Jirásek used this fact as inspiration for a novel. The castle was already in poor condition sometime in the middle of the 18th century, and in the second half of the 20th century it was reconstructed and opened to the public. The fourth entrance gate houses an exhibition documenting the history of the castle. 
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Potštejn Castle

The steep slopes of the foothills of the Orlické hory (Eagle Mountains) gave the advantage of a strategic position to the gothic castles being founded there at the close of the 13th century. The high headland around which flowed the Divoká Orlice River was the site chosen just before the year 1300 by the Drslavic family to build up a castle which they named after their original family settlement in the Plzeň area. For a short span of time in the 14th century the Litice castle was owned by two Luxemburg rulers successively, John of Luxemburg and Charles IV In 1371 Boček of Kunštát, a Moravian noble, came with his family to settle at the castle. One branch of the family became naturalized in Bohemia through marriage and the purchase of the Poděbrady and Pardubice estates.

Litice Castle

Renaissance chateau apparently built by Jan Hylebrant of Ryzmburk on the site of the old fortress from 1589 with high scutcheons and a facade ornate with graphite. Arcades with crossed vaulted ceilings on the first floor. In 1694-1924 it was in the property of the Sternberk family. Now it is in private ownership and functional use. Remains were found of the settlement of another so-called Silesian-platenic ash culture.
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