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Hrubá Skála Castle

Czech Republic · 14th century

Founded
c. 1350
Style
Romantic architecture
Heritage status
cultural monument of the Czech Republic
Coordinates
50.545°, 15.19417°
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Hrubá Skála Castle in the Czech Republic
Photo: Olaf1541 · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Hrubá Skála is a chateau near the village of the same name in the Semily district in the Liberec region. It stands on the eastern edge of the Hruboskalsko nature reserve in the Bohemian Paradise. It arose from the conversion of Skála Castle, built in the 14th century by the lords of Valdštejn.

Machine-translated from “Hrubá Skála (zámek)” on the Czech Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Hrubá Skála Castle ranks #4,772 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #138 of the 243 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded c. 1350, it is older than 54% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 758 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,759 times in the last 60 days, more than 66% of the atlas. 13 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Liberec, 27 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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