Fantast Castle

Fantast Castle (Serbian: Фантаст/Fantast), also known as Dunđerski Palace (Serbian: Дворац Дунђерски/Dvorac Dunđerski), is a Serbian castle built by Bogdan Dunđerski from 1919 onwards. Dundjerski family originally came from Herzegovina to Vojvodina (Serbia) in the late nineteenth century and at one point he owned 1500 hectares of land.

The castle became one of the most famous castles in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. It was heavily bombed in 1945, and subsequently seized by the government of SFR Yugoslavia, who proclaimed it as state wealth. Most of the original furnishings were removed, and today only 65 hectares of the surrounding land remain part of the castle's grounds.

It is said that Bogdan Dunđerski built the lavish castle and lands to prove to all that he was not bankrupt as had been rumored. He never married but it was known that he had a great fondness for fine women, horses and wine.

Text adapted from “Fantast” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fantast Castle ranks #2,628 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #17 of the 20 mapped in Serbia. Founded 1925 — one of 87 atlas entries founded in the 20th century. See how Serbia compares in the castle statistics.

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