Castle Nove Gradi Photo: Castle Nove Gradi

Find Versailles or Peterhof in the Czech Republic it is possible if to go to the town Nove Gradi, located on the territory of the Pardubice region. By the way, cities with the same name in the Czech Republic a few, so it's important not to make mistakes and to come in the required locality. The local castle, which causes surprise and admiration. This magnificent Palace in the French style, which has a large walkway with decorative trimmed cypress trees. Around the castle, defeated the French Park with small bushes, and gravel roads. The aim of creating a French garden was the organization of space, from any point which would have seen the Palace – the main treasure of this complex.

Palace Nova Gradi was built in Rococo style in the second half of the eighteenth century. Its founder and first owner was an aristocrat Jean-Antoine Herbeuval de Samara which to draft his residence invited the talented architect Josef Jäger.

The castle was several times passed from hand to hand, and after 1948 was confiscated in favor of the state. In 1989 it was returned to the grandson of the last owner, who put the Palace up for sale. Finally, in 1997, the complex Nove Gradi was acquired by Magda and Peter Kucera from Prague who have been here the reconstruction and opened the Palace to visit.

The Palace complex Nove Gradi consists not only of residential mansion, but out of the barn, which now houses a Museum of Cycling, two parks French and English, entrance gates and paths, called the way of the cross that leads to the ruins of an ancient fortress. In the Palace you can see a collection of furniture created in different styles. There are instances, even in a cubic manner.

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