Telč château, Renaissance château in Vnitřní Město, Czech Republic

Telč château is a Renaissance castle with two arcaded courtyards, built after 1550 by architects Antonio Ericer and Baldassare Maggi on the site of a water castle. About 30% of the structure is Gothic and 70% Renaissance. It contains a treasury, an armoury, a dining hall, and the Golden and Blue Halls.

A water castle was built here in the third quarter of the 14th century by Jindřich III of Hradec, after the town fire of 1387 ended the earlier castle. Hussites captured it on 21 September 1423, and Emperor Sigismund stayed here in January 1437. After 1550 Zachariáš of Hradec had it rebuilt as a Renaissance château by Antonio Ericer and Baldassare Maggi, with two arcaded courtyards.

The castle chapel holds a six-register positive organ built by an unknown master in the second half of the 17th century. The castle also keeps a treasury and an armoury, and visitors pass through the Golden Hall and the Blue Hall, both richly furnished.

The château stands on Zachariáš of Hradec Square, above the meander of the Telč Creek between the Ulický and Štěpnický ponds. The complex is state-owned and administered by the National Heritage Institute; the castellan is Bohumil Norek. The grounds include two arcaded courtyards, a decorative garden before the gallery arcade and a park with a Neoclassical greenhouse.

The Blue Hall features an allegorical representation of four elements through Roman gods alongside a painting of the Prague defenestration. This rare combination connects classical mythology with a local event that shaped Bohemian history.