Castle Nové Hrady
   Photo: Castle Nové Hrady

To find Versailles or Peterhof in the Czech Republic, you can, if you go to the town of Nové Hrady, located in the Pardubice region. By the way, the cities with the same name in the Czech Republic a few, so it is important not to make mistakes and come to us just at the right location. Local lock causes surprise and admiration. This magnificent palace in the French style, which is a large mall with decorative trimmed cypress trees. The castle is divided French park with small shrubs and paths, gravel. The aim of the French fleet was to organize the space from any point which would have seen the palace - the main treasure of this complex.

Nové Hrady Palace was built in the Rococo style in the second half of the XVIII century. Its founder and first owner was an aristocrat Jean-Antoine de Harbuval Chamaré which to draft his residence invited talented architect Joseph Jager.

Castle several times passed from hand to hand, and after 1948 was confiscated by the state. In 1989, he was returned to his grandson of the last owner, who put Palace up for sale. Finally, in 1997, the complex Nové Hrady was acquired by Magda and Peter Kucera from Prague, who spent here and the reconstruction of the palace was opened to the public.

The palace complex Nové Hrady does not only consist of a residential house, but out of the barn, where now the Museum of cycling, two parks - French and English, the entrance gate and the path, called the Way of the Cross, which leads to the ruins of an ancient fortress. In the palace you can see a collection of furniture created in different styles. There are copies made even in a cubic manner.

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