Melnik Chateau is described in Czech legends. It is said that Princess Ludmila often resided there and even raised her grandson Wenceslas in Melnik. Wenceslas would later become the duke of Bohemia and then the patron saint of the Czech state. The chateau was originally a wooden castle that was rebuilt with stone in the late 10th century. During the 13th century it got a Gothic makeover. Wives of Bohemian princes owned the town, and later Bohemian Queens resided there. It was Queen Elizabeth, King Charles IV’s fourth and last wife, who had the chapel built in the 14th century.
When Marie Ludmila Countess Czernin married August Anton Eusebius Lobkowicz in 1753, the Lobkowicz era of the chateau’s history had begun. During World War II the Nazis took control of the chateau. Then, in 1948, it was nationalized, and the family was forced to leave the country. The chateau was given back to the clan in 1992.
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Mělník Chateau

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A hunting lodge built in 1696 by James Herman Cernín of Chudenice was in the years 1713 to 1720 according to project FM Kanka converted to Baroque residence and later further modified by architects John and Christian Spannbruckerem Anselmo Lurago.
Horín Chateau is a very valuable object represents a single architectural work of art, even though today is in poor condition and not accessible to the public. The original equipment of chateau, unfortunately, not preserved. Free access is the only park where grow many valuable trees.

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Hořín Chateau

This was originally a Gothic stronghold that acquired its Renaissance appearance after alterations in the late 16th century. In the early 18th century, it was converted into a Baroque chateau.
František Maxmilián Kaňka created the project for Jan Jáchym Pachta of Rájov, the Bohemian nobleman and owner of the premises. Sculptor Matyáš Bernard Braun and painter Václav Vavřinec Reiner contributed to the decoration. Braun´s impressive sculptures also enriched the large English park. In the early 19th century the residency was changed again in Classical style and rooms were decorated by Josef Navrátil in the spirit of the National Revival. Precious sculptures by Václav Levý, a Czech sculptor, were installed in the park soon afterwards. Nowadays, Náprstek Museum´s exhibition of Asian cultures is situated in the chateau.
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Liběchov Chateau

When Ernest Josef Pachta of Rájov, the owner of Liblice estate, decided to build his new manor (1699 - 1706), he chose Italian architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi, native from North Laine, who worked in Prague that days. Alliprandi was trained in a craft of Francesco Martinelli in Vienna . He is famous in the Czech Republic, in addition to the construction of Chateau Liblice, for a number of important buildings to noble families Černínů, Přehorovských or Špork.
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Liblice Chateau

The castle is located on about a 30-metre-high sandstone cliff above the pond, near the village named Harasov. In 1321 it was probably founded by Pešek Hrzán from Újezd. In 1420 it was in the possession of Dobeš from Harasov. Probably at the beginning of the 17th century the castle completely deteriorated. At that time the locality was a part of the Byšice estate. At present, there are well-preserved (well-situated) rock cellars carved in the rock wall above the pond. However, it is difficult to find them as their rock windows and the entrance are occupied with a wooden construction.
The castle used to rise on the rock above the cellars and you can recognise the ditches and smallish relics of the walls, obviously the palace. In the sandstone near the dyke of the pond you can come across a relief depicting Jesus on the cross. The locality is sometimes mentioned as Krvomlýn (i.e. Blood Mill). The name is connected with several romantic legends, for example, about the owner of the castle who declared that the mill-wheel that he ordered to be installed under the castle should be started up by the blood of the murderers who had raped and killed his beautiful daughter - and that they should be executed by his own hands.
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Harasov Castle

Lobkovice Castle is halfway between Prague and Melnik Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Lobkovice is among the oldest of Czech villages, already being mentioned by Václav Hájek from Libočany in the times of Saint Wenceslaus (the Good King Wenceslas) and Saint Adalbert of Prague.
In the second half of the 14th Century Lobkovice belonged to Mikuláš Cotr, a citizen of Prague, and in 1377 the estate became the property of J. Cucha of Zásada.
Lobkovice was acquired by Mikuláš Chudý of Újezd, the founder of the House of Lobkowicz, in 1409, and stayed in the family until the nineteenth century, when it was bought by the Prague attorney Dr. Jan Mechura, father-in-law of the historian František Palacký, who died there in 1876. A few years later, Prince Moric of Lobkowicz reacquired the original family seat. In 1948, the estate was nationalised by the socialist government (resulting from the bill of the Revision of the First Czechoslovak Land Reform passed in July 1947).
The Lobkovice Estate was returned after the Prague Velvet Revolution to the grandson of the last owner prior 1948, Prince Ferdinand Joseph Lobkowicz.

Lobkovice Castle

Kokořín Castle (Czech: Hrad Kokořín) is a castle located some 10 km (6 mi) northeast of Mělník, Czech Republic. It was built in the first half of the 14th century by order of Hynek Berka z Dubé. It was heavily damaged during the Hussite Wars and stood in ruins until the reconstruction campaign of 1911–1918. It was nationalized in 1948 and has been designated a national cultural landmark since 2001. The nature preserve of Kokořínsko takes its name from this castle.

Kokořín Castle

Veltrusy Mansion is a baroque château in Veltrusy, Bohemia, located in the Mělník District of the Czech Republic. The mansion is situated near the banks of the Vltava River, about 25 km north of Prague. The mansion is open to the public for visits.
The mansion was initially built in 1716 by architect František Maxmilián Kaňka for Count Václav Antonín Chotek of Chotkov and Vojnín. The original mansion was extended in 1764 by architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi on the orders of Count Rudolf Chotek of Chotkov and Vojnín, who also commissioned the interior decoration. Further extensions and the annexes of the mansion were constructed in 1804.

Veltrusy Chateau

The exact date of the Chateau construction is uncertain, but we have some dates on the Chateau' buildings (1696 and 1635). The second one is connected with change of the Vidim demesne owner, when it was given into hands of General Johann Böck, betrayer of Albrecht of Wallenstein... But nowadays we skeptically assume, that the pictoresque Baroque complex was built in the first half of the 18th century together with adjoining English park. The demesne changed owners several times and finally it was in a possesion of German-Bohemian textile enterpreneur Theodor Grahmann. He extended the Chateau (western wing) in neo-Baroque style in 1898 and also erected in the Chateau' grounds vast homestead with sawmill. He also reconstructed Chateau' park and completed it by distinctive Gloriet, many bridges and cast statues of Classical heroes and gods. Later, after WWII, it was nationalized and nowadays, after partial reconstruction, it serves as retirement home (Domov senioru Vidim).
From Chateau' original Baroque exterior is the southern facade, opened into the garden, the best preserved. Facade has protruded avant-corps (risalite), balcony in the second storey and it is finished in the centre by volute gable decorated by putti and vase.
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Vidim Chateau

The Benedictine convent of St George at Prague Castle was already long established when, in 1228, King Otakar I of Bohemia gifted the nearby village of Břežany to the nuns. The village, whose name comes from a word meaning ‘river-bank’, soon gained the addition ‘Panenské’ (of the Virgin), and became the seat of the convent’s powerful abbesses for the next five hundred years. A residence was built, along with a chapel dedicated to Saint Anne.
Following a devastating fire in 1691, the then abbess, Francesca Helena Pieroni de Galiano, took the opportunity to rebuild both residence and chapel. For the latter project, she commissioned Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel (a pupil of Jean Baptiste Mathey) who was already turning heads with eccentric geometrical designs strongly influenced by his hero, the Italian architect Francesco Borromini, whose work he had admired on a visit to Rome.
Like Borromini, Santini’s fascination lay in the interplay of line and space, and particularly the sense of movement that arose from the connection of concave and convex curves. Basing the chapel’s plan on numerological principles (triangles for the Trinity, pentagons for the five wounds of Christ) the 28-year-old architect produced a compact, dynamic building that his admirers see as the launchpad for his later work. The chapel was constructed by master builder Filip Spannbrucker between 1705 and 1707.
The neighbouring house was rebuilt in a style sympathetic to Santini’s for use as a summer house for the convent. Having passed through several hands after the dissolution of the convent in 1782, in 1941 it became the home of K.H. Frank, the notorious SS officer among whose many crimes was the organization of the destruction of Lidice. Having served as a retirement home since the war, the chateau is currently being remodelled as a museum of anti-fascist resistance.
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Panenské Břežany Chateau

A breakthrough in the history of the village took place in 1544, it was the year when the fortress was bought by Florian Grispek from Griesbach who was about to have a very promising carreer at the emperor´s court. The Emperor Ferdinand I. gave him plenty of money and Florian decided to invest it in building his estate. He chose the village of Nelahozeves which was, thanks to its location, an ideal strategic location.
The chateau began being built in 1553 on the top of the hill above the river. The style was inspired by the Italian chateaux and it was actually the Italian architects such as Giovani de Statio, Pietro Ferrabosco or Giovanni Spazio who participated in its construction.The original plans for the chateau were grand - to say the least - but as the construction turned out to be far more expensive than expected many concessions were made. Eventually three wings were built by 1558 and though the last wing was also planned as its construction was never realized. In its place a provisional wall was built and it has been there ever since.
In 1623 the chateau was bought by Polyxena from Pernštejn, the wife of Zdenek Vojtech from Lobkowicz. It was Polyxena who innitiated  the foundation of the world-known art collection. The Lobkowicz Family had their main seat in the nearby chateau in Roudnice and the one in Nelahozeves was not used very often hence the chateau decayed a great deal. It was completely reconstructed after 1948 when it wasconfiscated by the Communists. It was not until 1992 that the chateau was returned tohands of the Lobkowicz family who opened it to the public who can come and see a magnificent art collection comprising more than 400 items.
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