Průhonický park a zámek

Amazing park and chateau right next to Prague

The Průhonice Chateau is along with the Pruhonice Park with an area of ​​250 hectares, a National Cultural Monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site administered by the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The chateau can offer stylish, carefully reconstructed historical halls and salons, equipped with the necessary presentation technology and Internet connection with wireless network and also active rest in the castle park, social activities in and out of the chateau, romantic environment of the Czech neo-Renaissance, catering directly in the castle halls, accommodation and meals in nearby hotels and restaurants. Each event can be organized in multiple halls so that, in addition to lectures for more people, parallel workshops or separate meetings and consultations can be set up. Thanks to its dispositions, the Knights Hall offers also social parties with dance and live music, while in the adjacent smaller halls a parallel program can be prepared or used as a rest zone. During longer-lasting events or as an add-on to the program, you will definitely welcome the possibility of relaxing in the world-famous Průhonice park full of home and exotic trees, shrubs and other plants. The Lipova alleys, leading from the square to the main gate with the arched shield and the porter's house, will come to the Great Courtyard of Průhonice Park. The entrance gate in the style of the Renaissance is replaced on the inside by the motifs of a timbered folk building with a shingle and a balcony. A natural landscape park of 250 hectares was founded by Count Arnošt Emanuel Silva-Tarouca in 1885. Utilizing the rugged valley of Botič stream and its tributaries of Dobřejovice and Zdiměřický potok, he used the original home-made wood in combination with the imported exotic woods. As the basis of the park composition he founded masterfully chosen vistaes. Trees, trees and shrubs alternated with meadows, ponds, streams, and their blind shoulders. He has used the variability of tree species in various seasons. As a result of his lifetime efforts, he is the world's finest landscaping work that he created in his own original way.