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Four-wing château in Veselí nad Moravou's west side, with a clock tower above the eastern wing and formal gardens. The garden façade features a shallow risalit and columned loggia that anchors the composition.
The château sits apart from Veselí nad Moravou's old town, cut off by a side arm of the Morava river and by the Svodnice canal, also called the Přívozní strouha. Its four wings close into a single courtyard, braced at the corners by towers set on the diagonal. Facing away from town, the west wing serves as the entrance, opening onto a forecourt framed by two curved outbuildings linked by a pillared gate. On the garden side, a shallow risalit breaks the roofline with three tall, round-headed windows on the upper floor and a balcony carried on four columns. That balcony projects far enough to form an open colonnaded hall at ground level, giving the exposed façade the monumental weight the rest of the building's stark composition withholds. The grounds, with their park and pheasantry, are protected as a cultural monument.
What you see
A squat, four-wing block reinforced by towers turned to a diagonal at each corner, its otherwise flat roofline broken by a single clock tower rising over the wing that faces the town.
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