The renaissance castle adapted in baroque style was built over a gothic stronghold guarding a trade route from Prague to Cheb. In its interiors you can find the painting by Peter Brandl. For two centuries the castle had been the property of House Lažanský, where the famous Czech writer Karel Čapek worked as tutor.
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Chyše Chateau

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Parish church of St John the Baptist´s Nativity in the square was founded in the mid-13th century, the site of the present-day chateau was then occupied by a Gothic castle.
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Valeč Chateau

The Manětín castle is often described as the “jewel of the west Bohemian Baroque”. The Baroque castle was rebuilt after the original Renaissance castle fell to fire. It is decorated with many Baroque sculptures and paintings. Roofed passage leads to the decanal church of John the Baptist.
Historical interiors with a collection of furniture from Baroque to historical styles, a collection of paintings, a collection of portraits of the Lažansky family. Lady's, men's and hunting stateroom. The main hall, library and staircase are decorated by frescoes. A view of the church from the men's oratory.
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Manětín Chateau

Petrohrad castle was founded in 1559 by Jaroslav Libstejnsky of Kolowrat. In 1572 was ended construction of the main building, castle tower with the tower clock was built as lately as 1895. The castle and manor were confiscated after the Czech Lords Revolt supression after White Mountain Batlle due to Libstejnsky participation on it. Count Czernin of Chudenitz acquired the manor in 1622, when he bought it for 98 000 threescores of Meisen thalers. In Czernins property was the castle up to 1945. In 1952 was the asylum constituded here.
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Petrohrad Castle

The first records of Krasný Dvůr date back to the 14th century, since then numerous aristocratic families (e.g. Kolowrats) held possession of it until Count Hermann Czernin von und zu Chudenitz bought it in the middle of the 17th century. Count Franz Josef Czernin von und zu Chudenitz decided to start an extensive reconstruction on a Renaissance villa built on the site of a Gothic stronghold originally constructed by Jan Maštovský of Kolovraty at the end of the 16th century.
The reconstruction project was undertaken by well-known Czech architect František Maxmilián Kaňka and was distinctly influenced by the French architecture; construction went on between 1720 and 1724. Some alterations of Chateau buildings were made at the end of the 18th century (in 1783 the chapel was erected, in 1791–92 two-pair staircases were built in the court and in the northern garden and ground arcades were walled at the same time.)

Krásný Dvůr Castle

Linhart Colon of Fels had it built. In 1622 it was acquired by the Černíns. In the 19th century, it was rebuilt in Pseudo-Renaissance style. From 1948, it was the property of the military, which later sold it to a private individual.
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Stružná Chateau

Toužim (German: Theusing, 612 metres above sea level) is a small historical town in western Bohemia situated in a wide shallow valley at the headwater of the small Střela River on the Teplá Plateau. The history of the town and its environs began in the late 12th century when the estate was acquired from Bohemian kings by Jiří of Milevsko, a magnate from South Bohemia, who, after colonizing it, donated the demesne to the Premonstratensian Monastery in Milevsko founded by him in 1185.
Since its foundation, Toužim had been the administrative centre of the demesne. Calixtin nobility took hold of the demesne belonging to the Order of the Prémontré during the Hussite Wars. Jan I of Vřesovice rebuilt Toužim into a Gothic castle and in 1469, the burghers of the plundered town of Útviny moved their borough to the castle. Toužim thus became a fortified town and the economic centre of the demesne. The last aristocratic owners were Dukes Beaufort-Spontini between 1837 and 1945.
The town experienced a period of heyday especially in the age of Renaissance in the 16th century. The local chateau was the residence of the nobility, handicrafts and trade with mining towns in the nearby Slavkovský les (Slavkov Forest) and Krušné hory (Ore Mountains) were thriving. The town gradually acquired various rights, the town hall, two schools, and three churches were built and suburbs were growing beyond the town walls. The largely Czech population was forced out or germanised by German colonists in the 16th and 17th century, and a Jewish minority settled in the town in the 17th century.
The historical centre of Toužim and the chateau are a monument zone, as well as two country manors in Kosmová and Kojšovice. The rich history and its traces in the form of numerous historical monuments along with the surrounding countryside create ideal conditions for active relaxation and invite visitors to explore this still rather unknown part of Bohemia.
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Toužim Chateau

Andělská Hora, originally called Engelsburg, is a castle above the village of Andělská Hora, about 7 kilometres (4 mi) southeast of Karlovy Vary, in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.
The ruins of the Andělská Hora castle stands upon a rock overlooking the village of Andělská Hora which lies just below. It was founded at the turn of the 14th to the 15th century by Boreš z Rýznburk, a noblemen from the Rýznburk family, as protection for their estates. The castle was destroyed by fire during the Thirty Years' War and abandoned in the 17th century.