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Classicist chateau of French style built the members of the noble family of Salm in the years 1763-1769 according to the plans of French architect Isidor Amando Canavela.

The interiors of the castle exel especially collection of oriental porcelain and prints, a collection of crystal goblets from the Mannerism period, a large part created by the brothers Ambrosius and Octavia Miseroniho working at the Prague court of Emperor Rudolf II.

A library with over 60,000 volumes in eleven languages is one of the largest castle libraries in the Czech Republic.

Chateau interiors complement the paintings of Western European, Dutch and Flemish masters coming from the collecting activity Salm family. The founder of the famous picture gallery Salmovska was the founder of the chateau starohrabě Anton Karl Josef Salm.