Nové Hrady Castle, Neoclassical castle in Nové Hrady, Czech Republic

Nové Hrady Castle is a Neoclassical three-wing, two-storey building with single-storey annexes on the side wings, built in 1806 for the Buquoy family. The facade cornice bears the alliance coat of arms of the Buquoys and the Paars. Inside, the two-storey Blue Salon is covered with white-and-blue striped canvas.

Jan Nepomuk Buquoy commissioned the three-winged Empire castle near the former Upper Gate, but it was completed in 1806 under his widow Terezie Paarová, following plans by Franz von Werschafeld. The first permanent resident was his nephew Jiří František August Buquoy. In 1852 Jiří Jan Jindřich Buquoy added garden stairs and pavilions at the ends of the side wings.

The castle's first-floor theatre, rebuilt in 1836 and enlarged in 1846, seated 320 spectators; an earlier smaller stage dates from 1822. The two-storey Blue Salon is draped in white-and-blue striped canvas to recall a field tent of the Buquoy ancestors' campaigns.

The castle stands near the former Upper Gate crossing on what was then the town's edge, and the NS Paměti Novohradska educational trail runs past it. The building is a listed cultural monument and is occupied by a department of the Microbiology Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, so interiors are not open as a regular visitor attraction.

The castle's first-floor theatre was enlarged in 1846 to seat 320 spectators, and an earlier smaller stage had been rebuilt in 1836. The two-storey Blue Salon is draped in white-and-blue striped canvas to evoke a military field tent of the Buquoy ancestors.