page_title: Libochovice Chateau
section_title: Chateau description
hierarchical_section_title: Libochovice Chateau / Chateau description
caption_attribution_description: English: Coats of arms of the Libochovice castle. Français&#160;: Armoiries à identifier, au château de Libochovice: celles du comte Dietrichstein, commanditaire de Della Porta en 1658?
context_page_description: Libochovice Chateau is situated in the centre of Libochovice town, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic. The castle is a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. It is one of the most significant Early-Baroque castles in the Czech Republic.
  Currently, the chateau is under the management of Prague National Heritage Institute, it was declared the National Cultural Heritage on 1 January 2002.
  Surprisingly, the chateau is not the main landmark of the city because it is only seen from the other side of the Ohře river.
  Libochovice chateau also boasts with the collections of tapestries, glass and porcelain.
  In 1787 Jan Evangelista Purkyně, a major Czech scientist and a scholar, was born in Libochovice.
context_section_description: The chateau has four wings and is surrounded by arcades lining the courtyard. The yard is accessible from the entrance gate and leads to the Italian symmetrical garden. There are also four fountains in the garden by stonemason Jakub Mitthofer.
  On the East side of the building, there is a balcony with columns and stairs leading to the garden that was built up in the middle of the 19th century. From the North side, the portal of the chateau with a Dietrichstein blazon is visible. 
  In the courtyard there are embosses with the theme of the sea creatures made by Italian artists Jacob Tencalla and Giuseppe Mattoni. Italian embosses and mythological paintings can be found inside the chateau as well.
caption: The portal with the coats of arms of the Dietrichstein family.
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