On Sunday, 30 August and 27 September, admission to selected guided tours at this site will be free of charge. Please obtain your free ticket in advance through the online booking system. Capacity for each guided tour is limited. On these special days, the following tours will be available: Adam's building (basic tour), Gothic palace (basic tour) and Black Tower with Black Kitchen
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.
Audienční pokoj
Kabinet sousedící s ložnicí v I. patře Adamova stavení
Pážecí pokoj s divadelními portréty Humprechta Jana Černína a jeho snoubenky Marie Ippoliti di Gazoldo
Pokoj smyslů v I. patře Adamova stavení
Rožmberská chodba v I. patře Adamova stavení
Svatební skříň Adama I. z Hradce a Anny z Rožmitálů v Pážecím pokoji, 20. léta 16. století
Černá kuchyně ve věži Menhartce z konce 15. století
Ložnice v Zelených pokojích I. patra Adamova stavení
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".
This visit line is available in regular tours only in April and October. But it can be ordered in advance by groups of at least 10 persons also in other months of the touristic season.
We hold the lunch break in October between 12 and 13 o'clock.
Opening hours
| Period | Days | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| 1. 10.-1. 11. | tue–sun | 10.00 – 12.00, 13.00 – 15.15 |
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)
Tours in English and German are offered only to groups and after previous reservation.
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