Gothic Milešov Castle, firstly mentioned in 1390, was rebuilt into simple Renaissance chateau by its owner Bohuslav Kaplír of Sulevice (Bohuslav Kaplír ze Sulevic) in 1603. His son Karel Kaplír built a new four wing Baroque chateau, which was added to existing Gothic-Renaissance palace in 1659-1661. Monumental two-storey building with courtyard arcades and chapel was designed by architect of Italian-Swiss origin Antonio della Porta. Nowadays chateau houses retirement home.
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Milešov Chateau

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Not far from the village Kostomlaty pod Milešovkou, a castle was built on a hill by a lady from Oseka, most likely before the year 1333. At the start of the Hussite wars Kostomlaty was held by Albrecht Škopek of Dub. He successfully resisted the attacks of the Hussite armies, although the castle was badly damaged. In 1434, at the time of the battle at Lipan, the Hussite leader Jakoubek of Vresovice laid seige to the castle. The seige was not successful, but all the same in 1435 he is mentioned as occupying Kostomlaty. He also won subsequent battles over the castle with the lady from Dub, and his descendents were known as the Kostomlatys of Vresovice. The Kostomlatys of Vresovice owned the castle and estates up to the start of the Thirty Years war, but with the coming of the Renaissance in the 16th century the castle lost its prestige and was gradually abandoned. It was again occupied at the end of the 18th century, when a tavern was established in the forecourt. The entrance path winds up towards the castle on high and leads to the bailey, which was build around the trapezoidal forecastle. To get to the forecastle, one went through a small gated tower, supported on the left side by a cylindrical tower. This was part of the perimeter walls and had a square internal shaft. The castle proper was enclosed by baileys with two square forts. In the southwest corner of the castle wall looms a rounded tower, ending with a narrower top around which is a circular walkway. Two parallel palaces formed the residential part of the castle. The palace near the towers was enlarged and raised in the first half of the 15th century. Remnants of the palaces can be seen in the outer walls, here and there are spaces where there were once windows.
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Kostomlaty Castle

Skalka, a castle together with a chateau, are found in the western area of the Czech central mountains, at the village Vlastislav not far from Třebenice. The first mention of the castle is from 1357, in connection with Petr, known as Skála. During the Hussite wars, the castle was held by an enemy of the Hussites, Hanuš of Sulevice. In 1496 it was obtained by Vchynští of Vchynice. After this, ownership alternated until in 1544 Jan Kaplíř of Sulevice and Košťálově bought Skalka. In 1579 the next owner, Adam Hrzán of Harasov, extended the estates. In 1639 Skalka was devastated by Swedish soldiers and much of its masonry was used in building a baroque chateau, which eventually built next to the former castle by the Hrzáns of Harasov.
The castle stood on a thin rocky ridge, whose northeast flank borders a cliff wall which the chateau building almost clings to. The northwest flank is milder, and so the access path (which splits in two directions) runs here. One path leads under the forecastle, the other leads to the cliff with the rounded tower of the castle (commonly called bergfrit). The tower, which has relatively well-preserved battlements, is irregular in section and is 15.5 meters high. The entry is 9.5 meters above ground level. Inside the tower there were once writings, engraved by prisoners in the 17th century when the tower served as a prison. Behind the tower is a small area, where presumably the palace stood. The oldest part of the site is the castle area on the top of the rocky ridge. Later the castle was extended even to the location of the chateau, and part of the cellars were preserved. Before 1579, a Renaissance chateau was evidently located on the site of the present-day chateau, this was destroyed in 1639 by the Swedish. The present chateau dated from the end of the 17th century. Material quarried from the castle was used during its construction, and the only remnant of the castle standing today is the imposing tower.
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Skalka Castle

A Baroque chateau is the dominant feature in Bilina, which is located near the Mírové náměstí square. Originally a Premyslid settlement was founded there at the end of the 10th century as an administrative centre of the Premyslid state in the Bílina province. In the 13th century a Gothic castle was built there, from which a vault carved in a rock and late Gothic vaults on the ground floor of the northern pavilion are still preserved. On the north side of the courtyard there is a Gothic bastion from the end of the 15th century called Manda. Since 1502 the castle was owned by the family Lobkowitz, who rebuilt it in the years 1675-1682 according to the project plans of G. T. Tencalla. In that time the Grand Hall, called Italian, with rich stucco decorations was built. The other adaptations were carried out in the 19th century. The chateau was in Lobkowitz possession until 1945, when it became a state property. Today the chateau is again owned by the Lobkowitz family and it is not open to the public.
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Bílina Chateau

The chateau was built by a leading Czech aristocratic family of the Nosticzs in 1856 – 1863 in Neo-Gothic Tudor style in the middle of a park that used to be known for its magnificence. In 1919 the chateau was bought by the industrialist Wolfrum who later sold it to the city of Usti nad Labem.  In 1994 the interior was renovated and now it serves as a represen-tative community centre with a ceremony hall and a marble concert hall. The permanent exhibition of the regional industry history including a permanent exhibition of railway models is placed in several chateau chambers.
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Trmice Chateau

The lonely hill of Doubravská hora, with ruins of a late Gothic castle, creates a noticeable natural dominant around the city of Teplice and attracts visitors for walks along its charming paths with coniferous and foliate trees. The Doubravka castle was built at the top of the Doubravská hora Mountain in Teplice as early as the 15th century by Jan Ilbruk from Vřesovice. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries the Vchynský family rebuilt the castle to the fortress. During the Thirty Years´ War the castle was several times taken by foreign forces despite its modern bastion rampart and therefore in 1655 it was partly demolished by the order of the Emperor to prevent its possible future utilisation as a shelter for enemies. In 1884 the ruins were rebuilt beautifully with a nice restaurant. At present the Doubravka hill and the courtyard are open to the public; the castle itself is private property and is not open. From the top of the hill there is a wonderful view overlooking the town of Teplice and its surroundings.
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Dobříčany Chateau

The beginnings of the castle date back to approximately the onset of the 14th century. During its course of time, the castle became the family residence of the Zajíce of Valdek. In the middle of the 16th century, following the Hussite wars, the Zajíces abandoned the castle, thus marking the onset of its deterioration. Mainly the two towers have been preserved from the original building - the Black Tower (cylindrical, basalt) and White Tower (quadrilateral, sandstone). There are remains of a town at the edge of the castle, which was abandoned at the same time as the castle.
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Házmburk Castle

The building styles, starting with the Romanesque and finishing with the Historicism of the XIX century, greatly infuenced the architecture of the chateau area. Its building started in the second half of the XII century, when Queen Judith „near hot water“ set up the Benedictine Order convent with a church called St. John the Baptist. Near the convent there was a settlement and from it, or from somewhere near, the town of Teplice developed later (the end of the XIII century or the beginning of the XIV century). During the Hussite wars the convent was badly damaged, the district commissioner Jakoubek from Vřesovice became its owner, and the nuns left the convent in the 30´s of the XV century. Thirty years later the king Jiri from Podebrady assigned the convent estate to his wife Johana from Rožmital, and it was rebuilt into a fortified country seat, referred to, in some written sources, as „castle“ or „fortress“. After Queen Johana´s death the owners of the chateau often changed, and the larger building activities started only at the time of Volf from Vřesovice, the educated nobleman of the Czech kingdom, the commissiorer of the Prague Castle and the President of the Czech Chamber, who owned Teplice in 1543 – 1569. Since Gothic-Renaissance period some parts of the chateau have been preserved, that is, the ground floor of the main building with the passage and the stone portal, the lower part of the western tower and the chateau church, where Volf was buried in 1569. The family of Vrchynsky owned Teplice since 1585. During the time of their reign the construction of the main building was finished and supplemented by the archways. This building was called „the new chateau“, while the rebuilt eastern, southern and western parts of the former convent, forming the inner courtyard, were named, according to some written sources, „the old chateau“. The outside corner of the new chateau was strengthened by the towers with cupolas. At that time the western wing of the main building, facing the park, had already been built. In 1600 on the eastern end of the chateau area a „lusthaus“, called the Kolostuj steeples, was erected. After the death of the last Czech owner of Teplice Vilem Vchynsky, who was killed in Cheb in 1634 together with Albrecht from Valdštejn, the rule got into the hands of the Emperor´s marshal Jan Aldringen. The Baroque reconstruction of the chateau started at the time of his successors Clary-Aldringens in the second half of the XVII century.
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Teplice Chateau

Former Gothic castle is the pearl of the royal town of Litoměřice. Located right in the historical city center, only a few dozen meters from the Peace Square.
The heart of the castle is a modern exhibition, which is a tourist attraction not only for wine lovers. Interested parties can also visit the tasting room with original stone tiles and vaulted ceilings adjoining the cellar, where the wine archive is located.
Thanks to the castle Litoměřice become the center of congress tourism. This allows modern equipped conference hall with preserved Gothic artifacts. Attractive spaces offers a lounge area connected with the historical monument of the chapel of the 14th century (in which, according to the extant historical sources prayed Karel IV.).
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Litoměřice Castle

Střekov Castle was built in 1316 for John of Luxembourg, the father of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, to guard an important trade route to Germany. After changing hands several times, the castle was acquired by the Lobkowicz family in 1563. Its strategic importance led to occupations by Imperial Habsburg, Saxon, and Swedish forces during the Thirty Years' War, as well as successive sieges by Austrian and Prussian armies during the Seven Years' War. Although Střekov Castle was heavily damaged during those conflicts and abandoned as a military installation by the end of the 18th century, the 1800s saw many poets and artists visiting the castle, drawn by a new trend of interest in romantic ruins. Goethe declared the view from the castle's position above the Elbe to be the most beautiful in Central Europe, while Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser was supposedly inspired by his visit to Strěkov. The castle was confiscated by the Nazi regime and later the Communist government, but was restituted to the Lobkowicz family in the early 1990s.

Střekov Castle

The château was founded as a fort in the 13th century by the Hrabišic family, which resided at the Osek Castle. Not earlier than 1527, the Lobkowicz family replaced the fort with a one-wing Renaissance palace. Marie Polyxena of Thalmberg, the widow of František Josef of Lobkowicz, married secondly Maximillian, Count of Waldstein in 1642. Their son Jan Bedřich, Count of Waldstein, later the Archbishop of Prague, was apprised with the French architect and painter Jean Baptiste Mathey, and he brought him to Duchcov for the purpose of rebuilding the residence. The château was incorporated in the Waldstein's family fideicommis and passed on through inheritance to Ernst Joseph Count Waldstein and to his descendants until it was nationalised in 1945.
Mathey designed a huge Baroque complex, including a large park and a hospital. The decoration of the building was provided by the best Baroque artists in Bohemia, like the sculptors Matyáš Bernard Braun, Ferdinand Maxmilián Brokoff, and painter Václav Vavřinec Reiner. Between 1785 and 1798, Giacomo Casanova, the so-called secretary of the 18th century, spent the last thirteen years of his amazing life in Duchcov.
In the 19th century, the château was rebuilt in the classicist style and the garden in the romantic style. The Waldstein family left the place in 1921. At present, the château is state-owned and open to visitors. The garden grounds serve as a public park.