The exact year of construction is unknown, the first written mention is from 1427. The castle has always been on the fringes of the interest of most of its owners in history and looked accordingly. Its condition is evidenced by the decision made by Ferdinand III after the Thirty Years’ War to register it among the so-called cursed castles and the ban on maintaining and repairing it in any way. At present, the castle is owned by the Špaček family, who take great care of the castle, but without ambitions to inhabit it permanently.

In the beautiful surroundings of the Bohemian Paradise, in the middle of sandstone rocks, there is a medieval castle called Kost. It was built around the middle of the 14th century and its builder was Beneš of Vartemberk, mentioned here as early as 1349. The castle was completed at the end of the century by his son Petr. By a rare coincidence, the silhouette of Kost has not changed since that time. The dominant feature of the building is a five-storey residential tower, called Bílá. Around 1414, the castle was acquired by the Zajíc family of Hazmburk.

In the years 1497-1524, the Šelmberks resided on Kosta, who rebuilt the west wing. Until the middle of the 16th century, the so-called Bibernštejn Palace was built on the way to the castle. During the Lobkowicz family (until 1576), farm buildings were built in the forecourt, fortified and attached to the castle itself.
   In the large halls, visitors will be particularly interested in numerous weapons from the 17th to 19th centuries, which, however, are not directly related to the members of the Kinský family, which we can see in the paintings. The black kitchen is also noteworthy.

Originally a wooden castle (built on the site of a former settlement fortified settlement), it was soon replaced by a stone castle as a landlord’s castle, guarding the southern border of the country. From the beginning of the 13th century, the western tower has been preserved. Bítov, which used to be the centre of one of the six Moravian regions, after the extinction of the Přemyslids, fell into the hands of the untamed Lichtemburks for more than two hundred years. Behind them, the core of today’s castle chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1334) was built and in the base of today’s castle palace, both entrance towers, gable wall and southern wing. At the turn of the Renaissance and Baroque, Bítov acquired its predominantly horizontal appearance in the mass with a single vertical slender watchtower. Between 1811 and 1863, the already dilapidated castle was finally modified into its present, predominantly neo-Gothic form under Count František and his son Jindřich of Daun. The bizarre charm of Bítov is completed by numerous collections of zoo preparations – a reminder of the collecting activities of the last owner, Jiří, Baron Haas (+1945) and his famous Bítov Zoo, one of the largest private zoos on the continent. The most sought-after is the collection of fifty stuffed dogs of various breeds, the largest of its kind in the world.

 One of the most important Gothic castles in Bohemia built by Přemysl Otakar II in 1264-78. In 1279, King Wenceslas II and his mother Kunhuta were imprisoned here. In 1350, Charles IV issued a ban on separating the castle from the royal estates, but this was already violated by his son Wenceslas IV. After the Battle of White Mountain, the castle was owned by Albrecht of Wallenstein, who rebuilt it into a monastery, then occupied by the Swedes and from 1662 until the abolition of the monastery by Joseph II, several monks lived here. From the exposition, for example: the Devil’s and the Great Tower, the castle palace with an early Gothic chapel, the burgrave’s building, the remains of the Baroque Stations of the Cross chapels on the access road, etc.
The royal castle of Bezděz is undoubtedly one of our most famous and popular castles. The characteristic silhouette of the castle with two towers on the higher of the two bell-shaped cones (604 and 577 m above sea level), which significantly exceed the surrounding landscape, forms an unforgettable landmark of the region.

The castle, mainly due to its difficult accessibility, avoided the fate that befell many other castles in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. For most visitors, it represents a classic medieval castle, as it has been preserved in its original Gothic form to this day without major reconstructions. As a massive royal castle outpost on the edge of the border forest, Bezděz was considered a symbol of Czech statehood. In our more recent history, it is inextricably linked with the peaks of literary, artistic and musical culture, as well as with political and social efforts during the Austro-Hungarian period. It was therefore only an acceptance of general awareness if Bezděz was declared a national cultural monument by the state.

The romantic castle is located between the villages of Doly and Bouzov and is the dominant feature of the local forests. The foundation of the castle dates back to the beginning of the 14th century. The castle often changed owners until 1695, when it was acquired by the Teutonic Knights. Until the beginning of the 20th century, no one took much care of the castle, but in 1901 the German professor of technology Georg von Hauberisser developed a plan for reconstruction. The castle thus acquired its present late Gothic and Renaissance appearance, which, however, is the work of the romantic ideas of Archduke Eugene of Habsburg. He financed the entire construction himself with the intention of making the castle accessible to the public. Bouzov became the setting for the fairy tales The Proud Princess, Princess Fantagiro or About Princess Jasněnce and the Flying Shoemaker

The beginnings of Buchlov Castle date back to the 1st half of the 13th century. It was founded by the Czech king as a strategically defensive fortress and administrative center with judicial jurisdiction and the so-called hunting right. The oldest part of the castle consisted of defensive towers with a residential mazhaus, a large hall, a palace and a chapel. The chapel was built in the 80s of the 13th century by a Prague stonemasonry on the model of St. Chapelle of the royal castle in Paris. Although the castle was in the permanent possession of the king until the 16th century, it was often pledged to aristocratic families. At the end of the 15th century, it was owned by the lords of Cimburk, during whom a representative knight’s hall was built in the late Gothic style. In 1520, the castle passed into private possession and from the 16th to the 18th century its owners were the Moravian families of the lords of Žerotín, Zástřizl and Petřvald. The chapel, which was one of the most valuable works of contemporary early Gothic castle architecture at the time, conquered by the troops of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, was heavily damaged and was abolished. After 1990, the space was reconstructed and made available to the public.