An early Gothic castle, expanded in the late Gothic era and rebuilt into a Renaissance chateau, with subsequent Baroque adaptations. Its interiors and former chapel boast a set of late-Gothic frescoes. The chateau houses the collections of the municipal museum and gallery. Newly accessible is also the chateau tower, offering a view of the town and its surroundings. 
Permanent exhibition: button-making and use of mother-ofpearl, historical sewing machines, the Jan Havlík Gallery. 
Exhibition of Rural Traditions and Crafts The chateau grange – a silo – was built in the early 18th century. It has undergone a number of building adaptations, but its purpose did not change for a great, long time, although the storage of grain was replaced by the storage of various unneeded items until its 2007 renovation. The original Baroque have today house an exhibition of rural traditions and crafts. 
One wing of the chateau is devoted to contemporary modern art. Four halls house an exhibition of fi ne art: oils by the academic painter Jan Havlík; objects made of soft linden tree wood, by the academic sculptor Karel Hlava; prints and paintings by Pavel Roučka; and book illustrations by the academic painter František Severa. 
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Kamenice nad Lipou lies in the northwestern region of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, some twenty kilometres north of Jindřichův Hradec, in Pelhřimov District.
The chateau acquired its present Neo-classical appearance in the early 19th century.
In 1580–1583, the original 13th-century castle was converted into a Renaissance mansion graced by a courtyard with arcades and a garden. The Baroque entrance tower was built in 1744. The chateau is surrounded by an English landscape garden featuring a linden tree estimated to be 700–800 years old. Kamenice nad Lipou derives its name from the tree. In 1998, the chateau came under the management of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (UPM). Following extensive restoration work carried out between 1998 and 2004, permanent collections were installed on the ground floor of the Renaissance north wing, where the Museum also holds short-term exhibitions. The south wing of the chateau houses exhibition installations administered by the Municipal Museum, and the Ceremonial Hall. The cellars with their Gothic Hall are also open to visitors.

Kamenice nad Lipou Chateau

Originally a fortress, rebuilt into a three-winged, two-stoery Baroque chateau in 1734. The courtyard is completed by a Baroque arcade, today the majority of it is walled-in.
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Horní Cerekev Chateau

he originally Gothic Stronghold of Roštejn was rebuilt in the 16th century and turned into a Renaissance hunting estate. After being struck by lightning in 1915, the castle suffered a major fire and it was not until the 1960 s that the property began to be slowly restored. It was finally opened to the public in 1969. The castle is currently home to a museum. Its exhibits include collections of porcelain, pottery, pewter and period furniture. There is also an exhibit of weapons used in hunting, an exhibit of stone cutting, as practiced in the Vysočina Region, and an exhibit on the natural treasures of the surrounding Jihlava Hills. The dominant feature of the castle is its 45-meter high heptagonal tower that can be climbed as part of the tour of the castle so that visitors can enjoy the view of the surrounding countryside. The castle s historic halls are used as a venue for wedding ceremonies and other social gatherings. In June, during the annual historical banquet, the castle s courtyard is transformed into a medieval marketplace; and, in August, it becomes the location of traditional jazz performances. Summer weekends, the castle is open to visitors for night tours with an accompanying program.
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Roštejn Castle

Rokštejn The most common destination for walks around Brtnice are the romantic ruins in the valley of the river between the villages of Panská Lhota and Přímělkov (8 km from Brtnice). The castle dates from the second half of the 13th century. Its complex building development ranks it among important medieval architectural relics from the 13th to 15th centuries. In the second half of the 14th century it was the centre of the marquisate and the administration for the region. It was burnt and demolished during the Hussite wars as a supporting base of Hussite nobility in South Moravia. Only a four-sided tower, remainders of the walls of residential buildings and the wall gallery are preserved from the castle.
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Rokštejn Castle

The palace in Jindřichův Hradec is one of the most well-known and largest complexes of buildings. It has undergone complicated constructional development. The original name of today’s Jindřichův Hradec, “Nova domus” in Latin and “Neuhaus” in German, suggests that the castle had a predecessor. Systematic archaeological research enabled the beginning of the local settlement to be explained. Its results led to the conclusion that a fortified Slavic settlement existed here already in the 10th century, which undoubtedly played its role in the Přemyslovec dynasty’s castle administration. Remains of a bulwark were found in front of the court facade of Adam II’s palace. Until the discovery of these facts, the date of the settlement’s establishment had been determined as the end of the 12th century. Further evidence proving the antiquity of this settlement are the findings in the Church of St. John the Baptist, where a large Romanesque church used to stand at the end of the 12th century. This moved the foundation of the oldest stone buildings in Jindřichův Hradec back to the time before the arrival of the Vítkovec family. Another fact testifying to the royal ownership of the castle is that king Přemysl Otakar II took the castle as a former royal manor from Oldřich I for a short time in 1277. A year later, Oldřich returned to Hradec. We can presume that the stone castle, which is one of the oldest royal castles with encircling buildings, was established by the king and taken over in the middle of its construction and finished by the Vítkovec family. The name of the first local Vítkovec, Jindřich, was later used to name the castle and the town.
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Jindřichův Hradec Castle

The chateau was built in the middle of the 16th century on the location of an old Gothic structure. The remains of the original structure are still evident in the cross vaults located on the ground level of the chateau. After a major fire in 1682, the chateau was rebuilt in a Baroque style. Its current design as a double-wing structure with a French mansard roof and a square clock tower dates back to 1767 when the property underwent a major reconstruction. Located on the first floor of the chateau is the original Renaissance banquet hall with its decoratively painted ceiling. The chateau was used as the town hall until 1849 and it later served as the seat of the local court. The first museum exhibits were installed in the chateau in 1908. The collections include paintings, folk art, porcelain, glass, furniture and clocks.
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Pelhřimov Chateau

Built by the former owner of the estate of Martin Jindřich Paradis de la Saga. It acquired its present day appearance during the times of Prince Schönburg.
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Černovice Chateau

The chateau's basic sightseeing tour introduces visitors to the original Gothic section of the chateau and its grandiose halls—the Modrý (Blue), Zlatý (Gold), Rytířský (Knight's), Divadelní (Theatre), and Císařský (Imperial) Halls—with their well-preserved wooden coffered ceilings, priceless furnishings, and a rich collection of weapons and paintings. The second route tours the residential rooms that served the previous chateau owners, the Podstatsky-Lichtenstein family, until 1945. Their furnishings are significant testimony to the interior decor of the nobility of the period. The chateau is surrounded by a natural park that houses a Classicist conservatory.
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Telč Chateau

This is a chateau, which, in many aspects, kept its original appearance of a Gothic fortress built in 13th century.  In 1717 it was reconstructed in Baroque style.  There are arcades on the eastern side of the groundfloor, on the southern side there is a gallery on cantilevers.  On the walls there are remains of sgraffiti, and above the arch there is a wall painting of Holy Trinity made by M. Resche jr. from  1718. It is currently being extensively reconstructed.  Organization of exhibitions, a museum of traditional crafts and a monument of the family of Edvard Beneš are being considered to take place there in the furure. 
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Pluhův Žďár Chateau

The existence of an original fortress on the site of today's château is assumed from sometime around the middle of the 14th century. It was built on a rocky granite outcrop, which, after the damming of a stream and the filling up of a fishpond, became an island. The first written source is an entry into the land records from 1465, mentioning the division of the property of deceased Ctibor of Zásmuk between his two sons Petr and Václav. The fortress then might have been sold into the ownership of Diviš Boubínský of Újezd, who sold it to the knightly family of Káb of Rybňan sometime around 1530. The family had the original Gothic castle rebuilt and the basic Renaissance remodelling carried out between 1542-1555, and the château acquired the name Nová Lhota.In 1597, the château was sold to Vilém Růt of Dírná who had the building rendered with red plaster, from which it got its name Červená Lhota. The last of the Ruts, Bohuslav, had to leave the Bohemian lands as an Utraquist after the Battle of White Mountain.
In 1621, Červená Lhota was inhabited by Antonio Bruccio, who died in 1639 without an heir. With his death, Lhota lost its function as a residence and it was used by his successors as occasional cottage. In 1641, it was acquired by aristocrat Vilém Slavat of Chlum and Košumberk and later it passed into the hands of the Windischgrätz family. Bedřich Arnošt Windischgrätz and his son Leopold dragged the dominion into great debts due to their out-dated style of economics, so the custodian of his under-aged successor Josef recommended the sale of the dominion. In 1755 the château then was obtained by the free lords of Gudenus. Franz de Paul, free lord of Gudenus, shortly afterwards initiated several constructions, which were brought to an abrupt halt in 1774 by a great fire, which destroyed essentially all agricultural buildings.
In 1776, Červená Lhota welcomed a new owner, Baron Ignác Stillfried, a progressive aristocrat of Prussian Silesia whose son sold the dominion to Jakub Veith in 1820. His daughter Terezie sold the château again in 1835, this time into the princely hands of Heinrich Eduard Schönburg-Hartenstein who gave the castle to his son Josef Alexandr Schönburg-Hartenstein. He died in 1937 and was buried into the newly built tomb, and thus spared the destructive events of the new war, which drew the curtains closed for the entire aristocratic history of Červená Lhota château.
After the confiscation of the château by the Czechoslovak state in 1946, a children's clinic was established here. However, a year later, the château was granted to a National Culture Commission, and in 1949 it was opened to the public.