A designed region
Woods, lakes, roads and temples distributed across three hundred square kilometres as one composition.
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About fifty kilometres south, roughly fifty minutes by car, which is easiest. By public transport it is a train to Břeclav then a bus, which takes longer. Make it a full day if you depend on public transport.
The château offers several routes: the state apartments, the princely apartments and other halls, each with its own ticket and duration. The state route is the best known and the right choice for a first visit. Decide before arriving, since places are limited in season.
May to September. Hours are strongly seasonal and the château closes or greatly reduces its tours in winter, and the gardens, which are half the value, lose their effect entirely outside the growing season.
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A château in South Moravia at the heart of the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The whole area, some three hundred square kilometres, was shaped as a single composition by the Liechtenstein family across centuries. That is what makes it exceptional: this is not a garden laid out around a house but an entire region formed as one design. Woods were planted, lakes dug, roads cut, and temples and towers placed at calculated distances to be seen from particular points. It is the largest man-made cultural landscape in Europe. The château itself was rebuilt in the nineteenth century in the English neo-Gothic manner, and its attached glasshouse is among the earliest iron-and-glass structures in continental Europe. The distance from Brno is about fifty kilometres, and a visit needs at least half a day: the château by guided tour, and the grounds on foot, by bicycle or by boat along the canals.
Woods, lakes, roads and temples distributed across three hundred square kilometres as one composition.
Among the earliest iron-and-glass structures in continental Europe.
The grounds are seen on foot, by bicycle or by boat, and are larger than they look.
Lednice, South Moravia, about fifty kilometres from Brno