Vltavou Castle has long been considered the most visited and most romantic castle in the Czech Republic. The castle impresses with its beauty, incredibly sophisticated architectural elements, beautiful collections of porcelain, mirrors from Venice, wooden carvings, chandeliers, a rich library and a chic collection of paintings. The castle was built over the Vltava River, on a hundred-meter cliff in the 13th century by a nobleman Čech from Budejovice.
Already in the XIII century there was a hail – a reliable support of royal power in the south of the country. On the territory, which is adjacent to the fortress, there are gardens, hunting castles and reserves. There is a glazed winter greenhouse, stables. Around the castle there is a beautiful English park with very rare, sometimes, types of trees.
The entire castle complex includes approximately 140 rooms, 11 towers and 2 large courtyards. The castle contains a rich collection of various furniture, Dutch painting, ancient weapons, glass, porcelain, tapestries. The rooms of the castle are decorated with wood carvings. The interiors of the castle are furnished in the style of the English Renaissance. Entering this castle, you immediately find yourself on a monumental staircase, richly decorated in the best traditions of romanticism, its beauty is very well complemented by numerous portraits of the castle owners, weapons and armor.
The values of the Hluboká nad Vltava Castle are unique wooden ceilings in the many rooms of the castle, the skill of woodcarving with which picture frames, doors, furniture, and rich wooden facing on the walls are striking. The library of this wonderful castle contains about twelve thousand scrolls and a huge collection of various books of all times and peoples.
The walls of almost every room are decorated with rows of artifacts from glass collections, the most valuable of which date back to the early seventeenth century. Ceramics includes Delphic faience, Munich, Sevres, Viennese and Slavkov porcelain, Italian majolica, folk Czech ceramics.
The collection of weapons has several significant and very valuable exhibits. The adornment of the hall, which houses the originals and copies of various historical weapons, was a statue of Adolf of Schwarzenberg, who conquered the impregnable Ottoman fortress of Raab in Hungary, and took the title of imperial earl and gracious permission to include a truncated Turk in his coat of arms.
The castle impresses everyone with its graceful beauty, standing out from the general range of harsh and impregnable Czech castles. This structure, which came from ancient times, as if proves that beauty, elegance and love are eternal.
