Selection of tours

The selection of tours presents the bigger part of the castle's structural development. The visitors will see the buildings and interiors from the gothic period to the late Renaissance. The tour starts in the old Black kitchen, continues in the representative chambers of the Lords of Hradec and ends in the music pavilion Rondell.

The tour shows the extended area of the construction history of the Jindřichův Hradec castle. It starts in the old but still functional Gothic kitchen, which was constructed near the Black tower at the end of the 15th century. It continues in the large Renaissance, so-called Adam's building, built up on the southern side of the castle in the second half of the 16th century. This part of the castle, full of representative spaces and luxurious chambers, was constructed and used already by the first owners Lords of Hradec, but further also by the members of the families Slavata and Černín till the middle of the 20th century.

The part of the tour in Adam's building leads the visitors especially through the very well preserved representative rooms of the lord of the house, so-called Green chambers, furnished and decorated in the 1580s. Apart from the furniture of the end of 16th and beginning of the 17th century, the most valuable are the original wall paintings and coffered ceilings from the end of 1580s. The usage and meaning of the Green chambers are also reminded with many portraits of the castle owners from the Lords of Hradec and counts Slavatas, who held the most important offices of the Czech Kingdom and who strongly influenced the economic and cultural development of the whole South Bohemian Region. 

The tour ends in the music pavilion Rondell, unique building with rich and mysterious inner decoration, rightly considered for one of the most important mannerist works of architecture in central Europe. Although Rondell as a building is one of a kind, it also belongs to a small group of the extraordinary, today just partly preserved, European buildings of the late 16th and 17th century, which were used for the most representative events of the noble courts and presentation of the so-called "Concealed music".

We hold the lunch break in October between 12 and 13 o'clock.

 

Opening hours

Period Days Hours
1. 10.-31. 10. tue–fri 11.00 – 12.00, 13.00 – 15.00
1. 10.-31. 10. sat–sun 10.00 – 12.00, 13.00 – 15.15

Group The times mentioned as the end of the opening time are the beginning times of the last daily tours. We hold the lunch break in April and October between 12 and 13 o'clock.

Admission

  • Adults 25 up to 64 years 220 CZK
  • Seniors 65+ 180 CZK
  • Youth 18 up to 24 years 180 CZK
  • Persons with disabilities with valid identification card/certificate 180 CZK
  • Children 6 up to 17 years 70 CZK
  • Children under 5 years free
  • Person accompanying a disabled person free
  • Person accompanying a school group of 15 pupils/students free
  • Guide accompanying a group of at least 15 persons free
  • "MK ČR" card * free
  • ICOMOS card * free
  • Seasonal NPÚ ticket free
  • Single NPÚ tickets free
  • NPÚ card free
  • "Náš člověk" card * free
  • * Valid only for one person (card holder)

Other tours

This tour leads through the first floor of Adam's building. It presents especially the representative lifestyle of Czech kingdom's supreme officials - Lords of Hradec, who had very high expectations on the look of their main residence. The second half of the tour shows chambers with younger - baroque and classicistic furnishings, which remember...

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4F17A2ED-8B52-4F67-8D80-EE0130BE50BE 240 CZK (full admission) 2F500991-B0F5-4AC5-9B90-2BBFBDCDFC45 Buy ticket

71B5B7E7-ACEA-4214-84EB-20FF073CEC43 duration 50 minutes

94D4AB38-6EA4-4B19-9C7F-17B845D49188 max. 30 people

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Gothic palace tour was newly furnished with many interesting exhibits, archeological finds and equipped with the new lighting lately. The tour represents, in an attractive way, the life style of the supreme chancellors, burgraves and judges of the Bohemian Kingdom, Lords of Hradec. The interiors of the Gothic Palace offer an overview of the...

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4F17A2ED-8B52-4F67-8D80-EE0130BE50BE 140 CZK (full admission) 2F500991-B0F5-4AC5-9B90-2BBFBDCDFC45 Buy ticket

71B5B7E7-ACEA-4214-84EB-20FF073CEC43 duration 70 minutes

94D4AB38-6EA4-4B19-9C7F-17B845D49188 max. 25 people

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The Black Tower can be visited without guide. Jindřichův Hradec castle is a complex of large and expressive buildings and it isn't possible to say that the Black Tower is its dominant point, but it is certain that the tower contributes to castle's imposing look. Comparing to other observation towers the local Black Tower offers panoramic and...

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94D4AB38-6EA4-4B19-9C7F-17B845D49188 max. 15 people

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THIS YEAR'S NOVELTY of the Castle Museum is the exhibition of LEGO models with the playroom for not only the small visitors. Second part of the museum is the exhibition Czernins - ambassadors, travellers, collectors which presents many unique objects collected by Černíns during their diplomatic missions. And finally the third part of the museum...

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71B5B7E7-ACEA-4214-84EB-20FF073CEC43 duration 0 minutes

94D4AB38-6EA4-4B19-9C7F-17B845D49188 max. 40 people

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