Zámek Králův Dvůr
Czechia
The three-winged Renaissance château, its ornamental portal still carrying the carved coats of arms of the Lobkowicz and Novohradský families, is worth slowing down for on the way into Beroun. The site's earliest written record is grim: according to the first documentary mention of Králův Dvůr, King Wenceslas I died here in 1253, long before Jan the Younger Popel of Lobkowicz rebuilt the medieval fortress of the Lords of Buřenice into today's château in 1585. Taken into royal hands as a hunting lodge from 1594, it was remodeled again around the turn of the 18th century and later passed to the Novohradský family and, from 1860 to 1945, the Fürstenbergs. The 20th century was unkind: after the war the château cycled through an agricultural school, a housing office, a vegetable store and a computing facility, while construction of the D5 motorway in 1988 cut through the estate and destroyed its formal garden. The town of Beroun bought the derelict building in 2011 for 13.5 million crowns and has been restoring it since, reopening it as a venue for concerts and cultural events.
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