Czech Republic · 13th century
Bechyně Castle (German Schloss Bechin) is a Renaissance castle in the South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. It is located south of the town centre of Bechyně on a spur above the confluence of the Smutná and the Lužnice and has been a protected cultural monument since 1958.
Machine-translated from “Schloss Bechyně” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bechyně Castle ranks #3,665 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #98 of the 243 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded 1268, it is older than 66% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1090 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,075 times in the last 60 days, more than 52% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Prague, 89 km away. It is one of the 189 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Bohemia. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.
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