Nóve Hrady Castle

Nóve Hrady Castle (German Burg Gratzen) is located in Nové Hrady near the Austrian border in the České Budějovice District, Czech Republic. It is also called the Old Castle, to distinguish it from the New Castle. Since 2002 it has held the status of a national cultural monument.

Machine-translated from “Burg Nové Hrady” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Nóve Hrady Castle ranks #5,752 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #177 of the 203 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded 1277, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 861 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Wikidata records about 17,000 visitors in 2022. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Linz, 65 km away. It is one of the 159 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Bohemia. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.

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