Lnáře Chateau is a picturesque but dominating landmark of the village of the same name in West Bohemia, about 50 km southwest of Plzeň. When inside, you should definitely not miss the massive Baroque and Rococo wall paintings with motifs from classical legends and Greek mythology. It is an ideal starting point for biking trips and sightseeing tours around South and West Bohemia. The chateau also offers accommodation in stylish suites and rooms.
Lnáře Chateau was built in West Bohemia by Italian master builders in the second half of the 17th century. The rooms that are part of the guided tour are richly decorated with wall and ceiling frescoes portraying scenes from ancient mythology. The largest room is the two-storey Great Hall. With an area of 240 m², it is one of the largest Baroque halls in Central Europe. It hosts concerts, fashion shows and balls. The ceiling is decorated with a fresco depicting the wedding of Zeus and Hera attended by other Greek gods. In the courtyard there is a Baroque fountain with a statue of Neptune.
The chateau offers two guided tours: the shorter of the two will show you around its interiors, the longer one also includes a visit to the garden. There you can see an observation tower offering a magnificent view of the picturesque surrounding countryside with artificial ponds. Covering an area of four hectares, the park is really more of a large English garden with eleven Baroque statues. The demarcation line where the American and Soviet Army met at the end of World War II when liberating Europe leads directly through the park. The chateau was in the part that was to be liberated by the Americans and was used as accommodation for the soldiers of the United States Third Army led by General Patton.


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In the Baroque castle from the 18th century , originally a fortress from the late 13th century. Today, the castle renovated basement and there is a permanent exhibition of Šumava folk crafts. The castle serves also as a school and for exhibitions and cultural events.
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Chanovice Chateau

The castle is undoubtedly the town's greatest attraction. It is built on a rock surrounded by a moat (i. e. artificial water trench), which looks rather like a lake. The castle is narrow, U-shaped, with a tower in front to which the palaces from various periods attach. It opens to a large landscaped garden. Most of the castle has been recently reconstructed and it is open to the public in the tourist season (April–October).
Romanesque Chapel - the oldest part of the castle dating back to the 13th century, it is preserved only as a part of the wall with two arches in the western part of the courtyard.
Tower - the tower dominates the castle and it is the main entrance to it from the East. Its square shape with an overlapping half-timbered top became the symbol of the town. At the beginning of the 16th century the famous Green Chamber (Zelená světnice) was created on the first floor. The walls of this room are covered in murals depicting various religious and secular themes. The prevailing color of the paintings gave the room its name. All around the room are coats of arms of major Czech houses dominated by a large one of the house of the masters on the castle of that time, the Lords of Lvové of Rožmitál.
Rožmitálský Palace − built at the same time as the tower, it connects to it from the southwest. On the first floor is the castle Chapel of Blessed Virgin Mary, whose Gothic presbytery protrudes from the body of the palace on the south side.
Old Palace - from around the half of the 15th century is erected over the former Romanesque chapel. It's built in a late Gothic style, but its large windows already mark the coming of the Renaissance style. Originally, it stood separately to the north from the previous two parts.
Rejt's Palace - is a unique combination of a late Gothic and the upcoming Renaissance style. It was built during the rule of Zdeněk Lev of Rožmitál, an important diplomat at the court of the Czech king Vladislav Jagellonský. It has large windows, richly decorated façade and a structured roof with wooden-tile ceilings.
Rozdražovský (or Serényi) Palace - built first in the Renaissance style and rebuilt later in the Baroque style, it closed the body of the castle by connecting the Old Palace (through a lower utility building) with the rest of the castle buildings.

Blatná Chateau

Two-storey chateau with a narrow rectangular courtyard and English park, which was created with the Baroque reconstruction of a Gothic fortress.
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Oselce Chateau

The first written mention of hradohrazení Green Mountain is from the year 1221. At the end of the 13th century Nepomuk let nearby Cistercian monastery built a church, into which reportedly regularly attended and later saint, John of Nepomuk. In the 1st half of the 15th century Hynek Krušina Švamberk highlights the castle, which was to replace the older Hussite fortifications. Subsequently adapted into a Renaissance castle and in the last third of the 17th century extensively rebuilt in the early Baroque style. Minor modifications castle building took place during the 19th century and early 20th century. It is still a place where legends are mixed with precious history, experience and beauty.
http://zelenahora.cz/

Zelená Hora Chateau

The Horažďovice chateau stands in the town of the same name above the Otava river.
A small, but strategically important, water fortress stood originally in the place of the present chateau. Through time it took the role of the Prácheň castle and it was enlarged into the Gothic town castle. The castle was property of the Lords of Strakonice in the 14th century, then the Lords of Hradec kept it and at the end of the 15th century brothers Jan and Racek of Kocov were owners of the castle. They often broke law and that was the reason, why the Emperor plundered the castle and the town. At the end of the 16th century the castle was under the ownership of the Švamberks, who rebuilt it into a Renaissance chateau. They reconstructed it one more time in the Baroque style in the 17th century and then the chateau became a possession of the Mansfeld family.
The four-winged building encloses the spacious courtyard. A town museum is located in the south-western part, which was built under the project of the Italian architect Salomini. Its main part is the hall with rich decoration. A small tower is situated in the north-western corner. A chapel, which was rebuilt into the Baroque style, with the preserved original early Gothic castle tower from the 13th century is a part of the chateau as well.
https://jiznicechy.org/

Horažďovice Chateau

Renaissance chateau with a tower completed by a dome, and an English park. It arose from the reconstruction of a former fortress dating back to the turn of the 17th century.
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Drahenice u Březnice Chateau

This originally Gothic stronghold was converted into a Renaissance Chateau in the 16th century. The masonry of the stronghold has been preserved almost entirely in the body of the chateau. The so-called Lokšany library, the oldest chateau library hall in Bohemia, was established in the chateau tower in 1558.
It is decorated with a painted timber ceiling and wall paintings from the Renaissance period. To this day the chateau has been protected by a large fortification from the early 16th century and surrounded by a Renaissance garden and an adjacent park in the English style.
http://middleczech.kr-stredocesky.cz/

Březnice Chateau

Oldřich of the Buzic family had teh castle built in the 13th century. In the 16th century, under the rule of the Gryspeks of Gryspach it was rebuilt into a Renaissance chateau. From 1623 it served as a summer residence for the Prague Archbishop.
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Rožmitál pod Třemšínem Chateau

The stone castle was built in the 13th century. From the 16th century the castle was left to decay and today there are only the external walls with defence towers and parts of inner buildings.
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Prácheň Castle

Chateau built in the years 1728-1730 at the urge of Count Bissingen, ranking among the best examples of Baroque architecture. A. Canevalle was the project designer. The two-storey building encloses a beautiful English park. After 1989 the castle was returned to its last pre-war owners – the Schwarzenbergs.
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