Valeč Castle, Baroque Revival castle in Valeč v Čechách, Czech Republic.
Valeč Castle is a four-wing, two-story château built around a rectangular courtyard, with two towers on the east façade. The older palace survives in the east wing and the younger in the south wing, retaining Gothic windows and portals. Inside are two large halls: one with a mirror vault and stucco decoration from the second quarter of the 18th century, and a larger hall with a 19th-century ceiling fresco of ancient gods and lunette vaulting with Baroque stucco.
A late Gothic castle stood here by 1526, when it was first documented during the settlement of the Kyšperský inheritance. Václav Štampach had it rebuilt in Renaissance style in 1585; after his 1628 exile the Kager family acquired it in 1694 and carried out a Baroque reconstruction into a two-storey four-wing château, later followed by Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque alterations.
The garden's main axis runs from the castle's west facade through a parterre that once held clipped hedges, fountains and a theatron, an open-air theatre, on the way to the Neuhaus ruin. A cross axis linked the gate by the Holy Trinity church to a summer house.
The castle is open year-round, including night tours by lantern light. Visits are self-guided with a printed guide text, and the interiors are shown in their raw, unrestored state without furniture, so architectural details later hidden by repairs remain visible. Short and medium-term exhibitions are part of the tour.
The statues of virtues and Greek mythological figures in the park are copies; the Braun workshop originals are kept in a lapidarium. A debt of 810 guilders and 54 kreuzers owed to Matthias Braun's sculptural workshop was recorded in 1797 when the estate was sold.
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