Lednice Castle
Lednice Castle is located in the Breclav District of Czechia. The 13th century castle was originally Baroque but rebuilt in the 16th as a Renaissance chateau. In the 17thcentury the chateau was torn down and a Baroque palace was built in the Neo-Gothic style. It became the summer residence of the ruling Princes of Liechtenstein, who owned the building and property from 1371-1945. The castle underwent further renovations throughout its history. In 1945, the Czechoslovak State took over the castle after WWIs land reform of Czechoslovakia and opened it to the public. The interior boasts princely apartments, a puppet museum, a spiral wooden staircase made from a single piece of wood, and a library. The castle is surrounded by one of Europe’s largest parks of nearly 500 acres and has been a World Heritage Site since 1996. The property has a palm-tree greenhouse, hedges, a haunted cave, a 1686 grotto, a Masonic wall, a Roman aqueduct, artificial ruins, a Venetian fountain, the Palm house, and John’s Castle, which is an artificial ruin.