Vlašim castle and castle park

  At the beginning of the 14th century, a Gothic castle was built by the lords of Vlašimi above the Blanica river. Over the centuries, it was gradually rebuilt into a representative residence. It acquired its present form under the ownership of the princes of Auersperg in the 19th century. And in the last quarter of the 18th century, it was the Auerspergs who built the romantic Castle Park, one of the most beautiful in Bohemia, on the site of the former castle grounds. Gradually…