Zámek Křtiny

Before it was a hotel, the chateau spent decades as a rundown school building: the German army occupied it during the Second World War, and post-war teaching left it in poor repair until the early 1980s. Its owners before that read like a roll call of Moravian nobility: the Dietrichstein family took over after Emperor Joseph II dissolved the Premonstratensian monastery, followed by the Bubna-Litice and Tauber lines. Mendel University in Brno inherited the estate as a forestry training ground, and a renovation lasting from 1994 into the 2010s turned the neglected building into today's restaurant, hotel rooms and conference halls, restoring original details such as the tiled stoves and painted ceilings along the way. The chateau still serves as the university's forest enterprise headquarters, set among the Moravian Karst beech woods it manages.