The castle was built on a high cliff in the middle of a deep borderland forest. A substantial part of the castle was built directly into the rock. The castle was founded around the year 1250 by the Lords of Skalice who also held nearby Adršpach Castle and Vízmburk Castle. Střemen acquired its name according to the stirrups on the Lords’ coat of arms. The castle was likely damaged during the Hussite Wars, or later in 1447. The only reminders of Střmen today are chiselled cliff walls, notches for beams, and remnants of stairs. Built on the highest rock where the castle tower stood is an observation deck that can be reached by stairs and ladders.
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The Baroque castle was built by Baron Sigismund Schmiedl of Schmieden in 1664. Today it houses a retirement home.
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Teplice nad Metují Chateau

Originally a Renaissance chateau built around 1596 by Adam Bohdanecký of Hodkov, in the 18th and 19th centuries the building underwent Baroque and pseudo-Renaissance reconstructions.
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Dolní Adršpach Chateau

The rock castle on Starozámecký vrch above Dolní Adršpach was likely established in the 2nd half of the 13th century. The first recorded owner, Hanuš of Adršpach, held the castle from 1354-1359. However, new owners, the Táboři, later began to torment residents of nearby Slezsko with marauding attacks; the owners were therefore paid off by Slezsko towns and the castle was intentionally razed. Remnants of buildings, a gate, and rock moats have survived. The castle ruins are evidence of a unique Gothic structure with remarkably arranged defence features. The accessible platform of the rear palace tower provides one of the most beautiful views of the Adršpaš rock city, Křížový vrch on the opposite side, and the surrounding landscape.
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Adršpach Castle

Rectangular, two-story Renaissance chateau built by Bernard Zehusicky of Nestajov in the 1st half of the 16th century. During 1681-1691 it was reconstructed in Baroque style by the free lord of Kaiserstein. Further renovations took place in the 19th century. In 1059 it was turned into a retirement home and following 1989 it was returned to the descendents of the original owners.
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Stárkov Chateau

Storeyed chateau with a mansard roof, built according to the design of K. I. Diezenhofer on the site of a fortress, which belonged to the Broumov monastery.
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Meziměstí Chateau

Originally a Gothic castle built in the 13th century by the nobleman Tas, later called Tas of Vízmburk.
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Vízmburk Castle

At the highest point stood the castle with palace, whose core was a massive rock tower. A stairway leads to the top for a magnificent view. At the foot of the rock is a barrel vaulted cellar and the remains of the well, then in the fortified settlement rooms carved into the rocks and traces of beam structures. The castle ruins are freely accessible.
The castle was built in the late 14th century by Matěj Salava of Lípa, who later became a Hussite captain and an ally of the orebits. His son, however, conducted raids from here to Silesia and Lusatia, which is why the Silesians bought it and together with other castles demolished it in 1447. It was the only one to be later restored. In 1513, the Silesians tried to conquer the castle, but soon after it ceased to be inhabited. After the Battle of White Mountain, the evangelicals secretly met in the derelict castle grounds with the Czech brethren led by Bishop Matouš Ulický.
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Skály (u Broumova) Castle

The original Early Gothic castle built above the town around 1254 was reconstructed in a Renaissance and Early Baroque style at the turn of the 17th century. In 1634 Náchod was acquired by O. Piccolomini, who left behind valuable collections of Dutch Gobelin tapestries and floral still lifes.
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Náchod Chateau

The resemblance of the chateau is from the beginning of the 18th century when nearby desolate keep was built one storey Baroque chateau with a chapel in the style of small Italian villa by Lorenzo Piccolomini. Thank to the book “Grandmother” by Božena Němcová is the chateau known as the summer seat of Catherina Frederica Wilhelmina Benigna, the duchess of Sagan, who inherited Ratibořice as the part of Náchod domain in the year 1800 and after it she rebuilt the chateau into a comfortable country residence. The beautiful duchess entertained many important personalities, among others were the Russian tsar Alexander I and the Austrian chancellor prince Metternich. In the rooms on the ground floor furnished with period furniture can be found the collection of the last noble owners, Princes zu Schaumburg-Lippe. After the year 1945 the chateau was confiscated and with other property moved into the ownership of the Czech state.
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Ratibořice Chateau

The ruins of Castle Brustejn, sometimes also called Silberstejn or Brecstejn, can be seen at Hradecek near Trutnov. The castle was founded in the first half of the 15th century and the first records on it date back to 1455, when it was owned by the Zilvar family of Pilnikov. From the latter half of the 16th century the castle was uninhabited and is mentioned as abandoned in the 17th century. As a structural type, it was a small face wall castle. An octagonal summer house was built on the remains of the palace in 1794 and demolished in the first half of the 20th century. High walls and a cellar in the southern part have been preserved.
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