Kolonáda na Rajstně

For over forty years after 1945 the colonnade sat inside the restricted border zone, watched over by Czechoslovak border guards rather than visitors, and reopened to the public only after 1989, when the National Heritage Institute began restoring it. The building itself is older: Prince Jan I of Liechtenstein, field marshal of the Austrian cavalry at the Battle of Austerlitz, had it built between 1817 and 1823 as a memorial to his father František Josef I and his brothers Filip and Alois I. Architect Josef Hardtmuth drew up the design; Josef Kornhäusel, his successor in the prince's service, carried the project through. Twenty-four Corinthian columns support a raised central section shaped like a triumphal arch, with a staircase inside one corner pillar climbing to the rooftop terrace.