Moravská Třebová Castle, Renaissance castle in Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic.
Moravská Třebová Castle is a converted Renaissance building in its namesake town with multiple exhibition rooms across different floors. These rooms display historical objects, furnishings, and architectural elements from different periods of the past.
A castle was first mentioned in 1346, built in the southeast of the town on a trapezoidal plan of 43 × 44 metres, with a square tower and a palace whose masonry survives at cellar level. Ladislav Velen of Boskovice, who had studied in Ferrara and Padua, bought the estate in 1490 and had the old castle rebuilt as a Renaissance residence in 1490–1492, starting with the entrance wing and its 1492 portal.
The 1492 portal bears the Latin inscription naming Ladislaus of Boskovice as builder, and marble portrait medallions of him and his wife Magdalena from 1495 are copied on the south gate. The Knights' Hall in the east wing keeps a cross vault with the heraldic signs of the Boskovice and related families.
The castle stands in the town centre on the site of the 13th-century castle, and the entrance wing with the 1492 portal opens onto the courtyard. The building is a four-winged layout around a large courtyard, with the well in the courtyard marking where the medieval tower once stood. The castle is open to the public and protected as a monument.
The castle holds a remarkably large torture exhibition considered among the largest from medieval Moravia. In the building's tower there is also an interactive exhibition about alchemy with experiments visitors can try themselves.
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