page_title: Blatná
section_title: Castle
hierarchical_section_title: Blatná / Places of interest / Castle
caption_attribution_description: Park in winter in Blatná (CZE)
context_page_description: Blatná is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,600 inhabitants. It is known by a water castle in the center of an artificial lake and a landscape garden around it. Blatná lies in a pleasant rolling countryside with a mosaic of fields, meadows and hundreds of ponds.
  Blatná is also the seat of the Municipality with Extended Competence and Municipality with Commissioned Local Authority within the same borders.
context_section_description: The castle is the town's main attraction. It is built on a rock surrounded by a moat (i. e. artificial water trench), which looks rather like a lake. The castle is narrow, U-shaped, with a tower in front to which the palaces from various periods attach. It opens to a large landscaped garden. Some of the castle has been recently reconstructed and it is open to the public in the tourist season (April–October). Most of the castle is in a very bad state for a long time already.
  Romanesque Chapel - the oldest part of the castle dating back to the 13th century, it is preserved only as a part of the wall with two arches in the western part of the courtyard.
  Tower - the tower dominates the castle and it is the main entrance to it from the East. Its square shape with an overlapping half-timbered top became the symbol of the town. At the beginning of the 16th century the famous Green Chamber (Zelená světnice) was created on the first floor. The walls of this room are covered in murals depicting various religious and secular themes. The prevailing color of the paintings gave the room its name. All around the room are coats of arms of major Czech houses dominated by a large one of the house of the masters on the castle of that time, the Lords of Lvové of Rožmitál.
  Rožmitálský Palace − built at the same time as the tower, it connects to it from the southwest. On the first floor is the castle Chapel of Blessed Virgin Mary, whose Gothic presbytery protrudes from the body of the palace on the south side.
  Old Palace - from around the half of the 15th century is erected over the former Romanesque chapel. It's built in a late Gothic style, but its large windows already mark the coming of the Renaissance style. Originally, it stood separately to the north from the previous two parts.
  Rejt's Palace - is a unique combination of a late Gothic and the upcoming Renaissance style. It was built during the rule of Zdeněk Lev of Rožmitál, an important diplomat at the court of the Czech king Vladislav Jagellonský. It has large windows, richly decorated façade and a structured roof with wooden-tile ceilings.
  Rozdražovský (or Serényi) Palace - built first in the Renaissance style and rebuilt later in the Baroque style, it closed the body of the castle by connecting the Old Palace (through a lower utility building) with the rest of the castle buildings.
caption: Park in winter
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