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

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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

Originally a fortress, which was reconstructed into a three-winged, single-storey chateau with courtyard arcades and a mansard roof in 1670. The premises are completed by a farmstead, and an almost absent chateau park.
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Nekmíř 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

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

Illustration of interiors, black kitchen, permanent exposition of historic bicycles, exposition of engravings. The château is situated nearby Hracholusky dam, between towns Město Touškov and Pernarec, cca 20 km from Pilsen.
Component of the precinct is also former medieval stronghold, probably from 13th century. Around it there is a water moat.
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Luhov Chateau

Throughout the centuries the original castle replacing an even older Gothic fortified settlement had undergone numerous reconstructions until it attained its present late-Barque form. The chapel with an ornamental sculpture of a Bethelehem scene made of melted crystal dates to the same period. Accommodated at the chateau is a museum with collestins of glass artefacts made by leauding Czech artists. Selected items are for sale at the annexed glass-art gallery.
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Bezdružice 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 ruin of Gutštejn castle rises on a steep cliff above the creek Hadovka near Konstantinovy Lázně (Spa Constantine). The castle was built on phylitic greywacke and slate, which were formed at the bottom of the Proterozoic sea more than 500 million years ago. The original marine sediments were strengthened and then transformed during later orogenic processes.
The castle was founded in the early 14th century by Hroznatovci, who derived their origin from the beatific Hroznata, founder of important Premonstratensian monasteries in Teplá and Chotěšov. The first written record of the castle dates from 1319. The castle belonged to the Gutštejns until the mid-16th century. During the Hussite wars the owners of the castle stood on the Catholic side and served the king Zikmund (Sigismund). The castle lost its impregnability in 1422, when it was besieged by Hussite troops under the command of Jan Žižka. The Gutštejns family , faithful to the king Zikmund, had received a number of villages and monasteries in Chotěšov, Pivoň, Plasy and elsewhere . After the Hussite wars they belonged to the most powerful families in western Bohemia. Burian of Gutšetjn owned Bělá, Rabštejn, Nečtiny; Tachov, Komberk and for a short time also Stříbro. He was the regional governor to Žatec and Plzeň and managed the Chotěšov monastery. At the turn of the 15th century during wars between the Gutštejns and King Vladislav Jagelonský the castle became prison for the rich prisoners. The seat of the Gutštejns was moved to Bezdružice in the 16th century. Gutštejn family members had held important posts at that time. They died off in 1747.
The castle consisted of two main parts, the forecastle and the inside castle, separated by a deep moat. The forecastle, which had economic function, is practically lost. The only remain of the forcastle is a small cellar carved into the rock. The original castle had no tower and so the defense was provided by massive perimeter wall. The core of the castle consists of three parts: the trapezoidal first courtyard, the second courtyard with the remains of the palace and the main towers with the defense wall towards Hadovka. The castle dominant is the main square tower with rounded corners and high-lying entrance. According to the results of archaeological research the tower was completed at a later date, probably at the turn of the 14th century.
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Gutštejn Castle

Château Trpísty (Schloss Trpist in German, Zámek Trpísty in Czech) is a late baroque 18th century manor house located at Trpísty in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It was built between 1723 and 1729 for Count Prosper Anton Josef von Sinzendorf on the site of a medieval castle.
Because the house archive was lost in late 18th century, the identity of the architect is not clear. Recent research favours the authorship of Jakub Auguston, an architect of Italian descent living in Pilsen (Plzeň in Czech). The extravagant layout and decoration of the house set it apart from Auguston's other works in provincial style, so Trpisty either is his best and most mature project or it has been designed by somebody else. The layout of the building is based on two pavilions (the North and South Wing) connected by two large oval rooms protruding in the middle of the East and West facades. The piano nobile on the first floor is lavishly decorated with allegorical baroque frescoes in stucco mirrors, while the main drawing room boasts a large fresco on its entire vaulted ceiling depicting an apotheosis of the Sinzendorf family and historic scenes from the Ottoman Court.
The large formal garden was landscaped in the English style in the 19th century and contains today a rich collection of rare trees, among them a 19th-century female Ginkgo tree.
The château, its park and outbuildings are among the last remaining examples of 18th century Bohemian country houses embedded in its original landscape without visible changes in the wake of industrialisation or subsequent destruction during the communist rule and belong to the most valuable historic estates in Central Europe.

Trpísty Chateau

Two-storey Baroque chateau with a mansard roof, built on the site of a former fortress. The facades are divided by colums with decorative heads.
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