Nelahozeves Chateau

Nelahozeves Chateau (German: Schloss Mühlhausen) is a 16th-century building, ranking among the most significant late Renaissance structures in Bohemia. The chateau is located in the village of the same name in the Mělník district, about 25 km north of Prague, on a raised rock above the Vltava. It is protected as a cultural monument.

The chateau houses the Lobkowicz family art collection and the former private library of Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic from the 16th century. The chateau's current owner is William Lobkowicz. The chateau is regularly open to the public.

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

Nelahozeves Chateau ranks #5,410 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #159 of the 222 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded c. 1600, it is older than 33% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 827 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,233 times in the last 60 days, more than 55% of the atlas. 24 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Prague, 21 km away. It is one of the 175 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Bohemia. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.

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