Bohemia's Windsor
White crenellations copied avowedly — Eleonora's English obsession.
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Two colours of aim: Krumlov a walked whole-medieval town (castle one chapter of it) — Hluboká pure palace opulence with park. The first-timer takes Krumlov unhesitating for its singularity — the interiors lover reverses. Standing wisdom: a Krumlov night makes next noon's Hluboká your natural road back to Prague.
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'The Czech Windsor' without marketing excess: white Hluboká with its crenellations and towers copied England's Windsor deliberately — Princess Eleonora of Schwarzenberg rebuilt the centuries-old castle in the mid-1800s in an obsession with English taste down to details: the country's most beautiful Romantic palace by repeatedly voted consensus. The interior is opulence measured to millimetres: walnut carvings of years-long craft (the dining hall its wonder), a twelve-thousand-volume library, wings of arms and porcelain — several routes, deepest the Private Apartments of family life until the 1939 flight refusing Nazism (confiscation followed — and it stayed the state's). Half an hour's drive from Krumlov (or Budějovice train and bus), the English park's woods and lakes free — and the south's golden formula: Krumlov and Hluboká as adjoining days condensing southern Bohemia, royalty and town.
White crenellations copied avowedly — Eleonora's English obsession.
Halls carved over years of craft — opulence as patience.
The family fled refusing Nazism — the house's final pride.
Bezručova 142, 373 41 Hluboká nad Vltavou