Kunětická Hora Castle (in Czech Kunětický hrad) is a castle in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. The castle lies on Kunětice Mountain (Kunětická Hora), about 6 km from the city of Pardubice.
The castle played an important role during the Hussite Wars of the early 15th century, during which it was a fortress of Diviš Bořek of Miletinek (Diviš Bořek z Miletínka). In 1491 it was bought by Vilém of Pernštejn (Vilém z Pernštejna), who ordered the castle rebuilt in the late Gothic style, with two towers and a moat. The construction was continued by Vilém's sons in the early Renaissance style. During the Thirty Years' War, in the early 17th century, the castle was besieged several times; at the end of the war Swedish troops burned it to the ground.
The castle remained a ruin until the early 20th century, when the Pardubice Museum Society was formed. The group purchased the site in 1919 and began reconstruction in 1923, according to the plans of architect Dušan Jurkovič. The rebuilding was completed in 1996.
Today the castle is open to the public as a museum. On display are surviving murals, including a 1523 work depicting Samson and Delilah, the oldest known Renaissance mural in Bohemia. The castle also hosts occasional music or theatrical performances. The mountain and castle form a popular weekend destination for people living nearby.

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The original fortress likely dates to the 13th century; in the 14th century it was rebuilt as a Gothic castle. The Pernštein family subsequently rebuilt the castle as a Gothic-Renaissance chateau. This chateau was purchased in 1560 by the royal chamber and ceased to be an aristocratic residence. The significantly dilapidated chateau was repaired by the Museum Association after 1918.
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Pardubice Chateau

Originally a fortress, which was already documented in 1626. In 1725 it was rebuilt into a chateau, which has maintained its form until the present. The chateau is a single-storey building with a "T" shaped layout and a mansard roof with dormer windows. There is a park made accessible to the public with rare tress next to the chateau.
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Medlešice Chateau

The first documentation available regarding the Dobřenice manor dates back to 1339 and it was the knight Zdeněk Bohunek from Dobřenice, who ordered its first construction. Since that period until 1862 the chateau and the courtyard belonged to the Czech dynasty Dobrzensky from Dobřenice. Subsequently, in 1862, the property was sold to Baron Karl Daniel Weinrich, who rebuilt the chateau into a new pseudo-classic one-storey building after a fire had partially destroyed it. In 1875 a beautiful 25 hectares English Park was designed by famous architect Edward Petzold and this whole area has been well maintained over the last decades.
In 1928 the entire estate was purchased by the director of Škoda company in Plzeň, Karel Loevenstein, who immediately initiated an extensive renovation of the chateau. He expanded the chateau by adding rooms on the upper floor, installed central heating, rebuilt and refurnished the interiors and constructed a new main entrance of the courtyard embellished with two large statues of lions. In addition to Dobřenice he also purchased a nearby estate in Kratonohy, resulting in ownership of 750 hectares of agricultural and forestland with both properties.
In 1934 a poultry farm, a sawmill and large greenhouses were put into operation.
In 1937 a burial chamber was built on the church grounds, and in 1938, after Karel Loevenstein´s passing, he was laid here to rest.
Two years later a german receivership of the whole manor was declared. In 1945 the whole property was returned to the Loevenstein family, but their ownership didn´t last long and in 1948 the property was under the ruling of the communist regime nationalized and turned into a state farm for over 40 years.
In consequence of the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the property was finally in 1993 restituted to its rightful owner – Karla Loevenstein (due to mariage renamed Karla Katschnerová), daughter of Karel Loevenstein. She had immigrated to Brazil with her husband Milan Katschner in 1948, and returned to the Czech Republic in 1993 at the age of 70. With her entrepreneurial spirit she immediately took charge of the property and started to rebuild many of the buildings and roofs in order to avoid further damages. As a passionate horse rider all her life, she transformed cow houses into horse stables and brought the equestrian life back to Dobřenice by renovating original indoor arena and creating a riding school. Since 1997 her son, Rodrigo Katschner and his family have joined forces to continue the reconstruction of the whole estate.
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Dobřenice Chateau

Reference is made in the founding document to the Chrudim castle and to Old Chrudim. The sovereign required the newly founded town to be fortified with walls and moats. Only traces of the castle are in evidence today: a bearded head with a wide-brimmed hat, a bishop's head wearing a ceremonial cap, a gargoyle's head, and two shields can be seen on the outside.
The so-called Zizka's tower formed part of the castle and town defenses. The tower was razed in 1846, needlessly, without research or documentation. It was a two-story structure with a shingle roof; accessible by ladder; its ground floor walls were 2.25 meters wide.
The tower Hlaska, a tall, square tower with a turret bearing the town emblem, formed another part of the castle's original fortification. In its day it provide living quarters for the town's crier or trumpeter. The tower collapsed in 1717 and has not been rebuilt. Three gates guarded entry to the walled inner town.
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Chrudim Castle

The chateau building was built after 1705 as a villa for the Premostrates from Hradisko near Olomouc. The layout of the ground floor with barrel and monasteial vaulted ceilings has remained conserved. On the first floor, the mirrored vaulted ceiling remains from the original furnishings. After the monastery was terminated in 1784, the chateau was transferred into private hands.
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Hrochův Týnec Chateau

The first written mention of Choltice dates to 1285 with Beneš of Choltice, one of the leading nobles at the time of King Václav II. Most likely in the second half of the 16th century the fortress was rebuilt into a relatively large chateau, which had thirty-five rooms in 1620. Preserved today is a building with a corner tower in the northeastern part of the chateau grounds. A fundamental change occurred under Romedius Konstantin, who chose Choltice as his residence and soon left the site of the old chateau to build a new Baroque chateau, including the Chapel of St. Romedius with rich stucco and painting ornamentation.
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Choltice Chateau

The ruins of the hunting chateau stand in the middle of a former French park. It was commissioned by the owner of the Chroustovice estate Filip Kinsky. In 1823, Karel Alexander Thurn - Taxis acquired it and left it to fall into disrepair.
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Neulust Chateau

The interiors received their present appearance at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, when inhabited by Prince Franz Joseph of Ausperg´s family. Open to visitors are private rooms and those used for social functions, as well as production and service premises. A separate tour will take them through the hippological exposition, as the owners were passionate horse breeders. The adjoining stud farm is still in operation. The chateau English park boasts many rare trees and shrubs.
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Slatiňany Chateau

A Late Baroque building from 1784, reconstructed in 1876, with additions made in 1932-1933, situated in a large,significant English park. The chateau stands on the site where the original fort likely stood; referred to as a chateau after 1591, the building was burned by Imperial forces in 1623. The German general staff was situated at the chateau in the spring of 1945 and the chateau park was used as an airfield. In May Soviet troops took over the chateau and it subsequently served as a summer residence for the Ministery of Foreign Affairs. Since 1952 the chateau has served as a Prague retirement home.
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Heřmanův Městec Chateau

Hrádek u Nechanic is a 19th-century Gothic style Romantic château near the town of Hrádek in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. In 2001 Hrádek u Nechanic was declared part of the National Cultural Heritage. The chateau is administered by the National Heritage Trust and the Ministry of Culture.
Hrádek u Nechanic was built between 1839 and 1857 as a representative and summer seat by Count František Arnošt of Harrach, one of the most important representatives of the Jilemnice dynasty. The young Austrian architect Karl Fischer led building operations and suggested decoration of the chateau's interior. The chateau was designed by the English architect Edward Buckton Lamb. It is referred to as “Little Hluboká” because it resembles to Hluboka Chateau in southern Bohemia. Most of the furniture was made by local artisans. The remainder of the interior was brought from Italy and Austria. Around the same time, L. Krüger converted part of the local forest into a park. In the left part of the park, a reserve and pheasantry were founded. In 1945, the chateau was confiscated because of the Beneš decrees.