Nové Město nad Metují Castle

The chateau in Nové Město nad Metují is originally a Renaissance building, rebuilt in the Baroque style around 1660 and, at the beginning of the 20th century, remodelled by Dušan Jurkovič and other architects in modern styles (Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Rondo-Cubism, Functionalism). The chateau has been protected as a national cultural monument since 2008.

Machine-translated from “Nové Město nad Metují (zámek)” on the Czech Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Nové Město nad Metují Castle ranks #5,644 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #171 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 1,041 times in the last 60 days, more than 50% of the atlas. Wikidata records about 17,000 visitors in 2022. 9 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Pardubice, 43 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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