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Veltrusy State Castle, a national cultural monument, is located in close proximity to the town of Veltrusy, approximately 25 km north of Prague. Veltrusy Castle is an important work of high baroque from the first half of the 18th century. Its author is the prominent Prague architect of Italian origin, Giovanni Battista Alliprandi. Otherwise, there is a great park for walking with children and some fairy tales were filmed there :) You can also walk from us! ...or on a bike. |
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| Obříství Castle is a two-story late classicist complex of buildings, the front part of which stands on the village's village square and the back tract is located on an elevated site above the river. The original fortress in Obříství, which stood on the site of today's castle, was first documented in writing in 1290. In 1384, a church was mentioned next to it. It is then mentioned in 1490 as the property of Jan of Lobkovice, and the Lobkovics held Obříství until 1542, when it was bought by Vilém Kamýcký of Lstiboř. | ||
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| Nelahozeves Castle (Schloss Mühlhausen in German) is a building from the 16th century that belongs to the most important late Renaissance buildings in Bohemia. The castle is located in the village of the same name, about 25 km north of Prague on a raised rock above the Vltava. It is protected as a cultural monument. The castle houses the ancestral Lobkowicz art collection. The current owner of the castle is William Lobkowicz. The castle is normally accessible to the public as a tourist. | ||
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| Mělník castle was converted into a castle on a hill above the Elbe river. It thus forms one of the dominant features of the city of Mělník. The preserved form is the result of the Baroque rebuilding and later modifications. It is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
The Mělník underground was created from the end of the 13th century. The construction took place simultaneously with the construction of the city. The first floor of the corridor system is located at a depth of 8 to 10 meters below the surface, the third, the deepest, up to 25 meters. |
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| Roudnice nad Labem is a castle converted into a castle in the town of the same name owned by Mrs. Margaret Brooks Lobkowicz. It was built in the Romanesque style in the second half of the twelfth century on a rocky promontory above the Elbe River as the seat of the bishops of Prague. At the beginning of the 17th century, it came into the possession of the noble Lobkovic family. The preserved form is the result of the Baroque reconstruction from 1652–1684. The heritage-protected[1] grounds of the castle are located in the city center on the edge of Karlova náměstí. | ||
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| The largest statue of Christ in the Czech Republic is the one near the village of Úžice, near Kralup nad Vltavou. In addition, it is inspired by the famous Brazilian statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. | ||
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| Josef Švejk, the hero of Hašek's humorous novel, sits on a bench in front of the town hall in Kralupy nad Vltavou; you can sit next to him if you don't mind the fact that there is also a bronze dog sitting next to you and there is a bronze dog poo with a fly, also bronze, under the bench. | ||
| The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Wenceslas in Kralupy nad Vltavou is a single-nave pseudo-Gothic brick building from 1894-1895, oriented with the presbytery to the north. The church is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. | ||
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| Okoř is a castle ruin located in the western part of the village of the same name Okoř, approximately 15 km northwest of the center of the capital city of Prague. It has been protected as a cultural monument since 1965. The castle was built in a valley between fields on a small rock surrounded by the Zákolan stream at an altitude of 275 m above sea level. Okoř is an exception in the Czech territory due to its location below the level of the surrounding hills (cf. also Kost Castle). | ||
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| The devil's heads are about 9 m high rock reliefs of two giant (devil's) heads carved into sandstone blocks in a pine forest above the village of Želízy in the Mělník district. This is the work of the sculptor Václav Levy, which he created in the years 1841–1846 (period of romanticism). In terms of dimensions, this is a completely unique work by Czech standards. They are the second largest head reliefs in the world, larger only in Mount Rushmore. | ||
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| Kokořín Castle is located approximately ten kilometers northeast of Mělník above the Pšovka river in Dokeská pahorkatina, near the village of Kokořín. It was built after 1320, probably by Prague burgrave Hynk Berka of Dubé. After the name of the castle, the entire protected area is called Kokořínské. | ||
