You can visit the ruins of a castle from the 13th century with a well-preserved bergfried tower as an observation tower that has survived to the present day. The castle remains are now a part of a historical-craft educational centre whose purpose is to inform the general public about craftsmanship of our ancestors. The centre includes multiple workshops, a forge, a pottery oven or, for example, a small herb garden.
https://visittabor.eu/

Šelmberk Castle

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The first written reference to the site dates back to 1149 and mentions a convent of the Premonstratensians, founded in the so-called Moon Valley. The Lounovice convent was ruined in 1420 by the Tabor forces that then dominated the whole region. The museum displays findings of the archaeological research of the convent, installed in the château by the National Museum in 1981. During a reconstruction in 1982, a band of sgraffito was uncovered, depicting an interesting view of the biblical theme of The Flood. Above the bossage of the entry portal there is the coat of arms of the archbishops as a reminder of the times when the château was in their possession. The château is also the birthplace of the music composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 - 1745).
http://tourism.cz/

Louňovice pod Blaníkem Chateau

The Baroque chateau stands in the village of Chotoviny. The three-winged building with the polygonal tower was built between 1770 - 1780. The frontage of the chateau has the Pseudo-Renaissance appearance from the reconstruction in the 1870's. Hundreds of years old oak trees can be found in the park around the chateau.
http://yellowchateau.com/

Chotoviny Chateau

The ruins of a medieval stronghold called Starý Zámek are situated northwest of Tábor in the direction of Sedlec. Its history reaches back to the 14th century.
In 1434 the castle was unsuccessfully besieged by Prokop Holý´s troops; in the early 17th century the castle was plundered by the imperial army and never repaired afterwards. In the early 19th century stone from the ruins was used for construction in the nearby village. Parts of towers have remained from the castle and some walls of the new palace and the gate. Due to its favourable location in forested countryside above two ponds this is a widely sought after location.
http://taborcz.eu/

Borotín Castle

Initially constructed as a castle in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 16th century as a château by the Robmháp family of Suchá.
Notable owners include the imperial field marshal and martial councillor Sigismund Myslík of Hyršov and the Španovský family of Lisov. The Discalced Carmelites, who came to Pacov in 1708, started converting the palace into a monastery and the Abbey Church of St. Wenceslas in 1718. The famous architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer designed plans for further development in 1739. The building was ultimately reconstituted as a manor house after the monastery’s dissolution by Joseph II in 1787, its square layout being broken in 1884 when the east wing was torn down. In the 1860s the château housed a grammar school and teacher’s quarters where the poet Antonín Sova was born on February 26, 1864, as a son of the local schoolmaster Jan Sova. Sova’s birth is now commemorated by a JV Dušek monument on top of the ramparts. The Weiss von Tessbach family owned the château until May 1945 when it was appropriated by state authorities. From 1947 to 1992 it was occupied by the Czechoslovakian People’s Army. The château’s ongoing renovation started in 1997 when it once again became municipal property.
Today it houses the town council, Antonín Sova History Museum, public library, and Tourist Information Centre.
http://zamekpacov.cz/

Pacov Chateau

The Renaissance castle was rebuilt from a medieval stronghold of the French type, as can be seen from a massive tower. In the 18th and 19th century the castle was enlarged in Neo-Gothic style - from this time are romantic buildings in the park and three entrance gates with crests of the former owners.
https://czecot.com/

Vlašim Chateau

Měšice Castle is situated in Tábor, Southern Bohemia, Czech Republic, about 2 km from the "Tábor Infocenter" along the Chýnov - Pelhřimov road.
Over its 450-year history, the design of the castle has changed and evolved according to the times, tastes, requirements and finances of successive aristocrats. The immediate environs of the castle is known as the Castle Park.
In 1545, the knight Prokop of Hejlovec built a Renaissance style manor house in the village of Měšice (today, this area is an outlying district of Tábor). During this time, the villages of Měšice, Čekanice and Stoklasná Lhota all belonged to the Prokop family of Hejlovec.
John Joseph Caretto, the Count of Mellisimo, rebuilt the manor house in 1699 as a Baroque Castle. In 1792, John Hannygar of Eberg built special water toilets in the Baroque Castle. These water toilets, still work today. In 1817, John Schmidgräber of Lusteneg enlarged the building and, in the Empire style, installed an ostentatious staircase and recreated the facade of the castle.
After 1877, the castle belonged to the Nádherný family (barons) of Borutín. Since 1997, the castle has been the property of Jan Berwid-Buquoy.

Měšice Castle

A stone - or rather an inaccessible granite rock was an ideal place for founding of a manor of the same name (in Czech "Kámen" means "The Stone"). Its older, Gothic section, from which only a palace remained, was founded probably in the 13th century. Newer buildings of the chateau date back to Baroque of the 17th century, in the 19th century it was influenced by the wave of romanticism. Following its restoration in 1970s, the castle and its imposing grounds house the Museum of Single-track Vehicles.
https://czecot.com/

Kámen Castle

Medieval fortress mentioned the year 1363 in connection with the death of noblemen Mikoláš z Radenína, rebuilt in the early 17th century into a Renaissance castle and extended with a new wing. Later rebuiled into Empire chateau, last time changed the look in 1845, when rebuiled in Neo- Renaissance style.
http://waymarking.com/

Radenín Chateau

Between 1857 and 59 the château was significatly rebuilt in the neo-gothic style for John of Nepomuk Kanka, a significant Prague patron and a university rector. Kanka also established an English château park and later an extended library and a picture gallery inside the château.
Jan N Kanka was an attorney and from the year 1778 a councillor of Prague court of appeal. He was promoted to the doctor of law, in 1815 he was awarded a degree of the dean of the faculty of law and he later became a rector of the university. In 1938 Václav Zakotelna, an architect and builder in Prague bought the manor farm estate of Jetřichovice and Vrchotice. He paid significant attention to the cultivation of the neglected property, first of all he reconstructed the château and the chaple. The owners of the building are offering the property for sale –château compound of Jetřichovice including the adjacent part of the château garden.
http://chateau.cz/

Jetřichovice Chateau

This Baroque chateau was built around 1724 near the yeoman stronghold from the 14th century. Count František Adam of Trautmannsdorf had it built by František Maxmilián Kaňka, a reputable architect of the Czech Baroque period.

The chateau has kept its current appearance since a partial reconstruction was made after a fire in 1754. It is an example of a typical aristocratic estate of the high Baroque period. St. Joseph´s Chapel, with a fresco and altar paintings by Václav Vavřinec Reiner, is one of the most attractive parts of the chateau. Also sculptures by Matyáš Bernard Braun are part of the chapel´s decoration. All rooms open to the public display historical furniture as well as collections of the Šternberk family dating from the 17th to 19th century. The chateau premises are surrounded by a large English park.
http://middleczech.kr-stredocesky.cz/