Strážnice Chateau, Renaissance château in Strážnice, Czech Republic.

Strážnice Chateau is a Neorenaissance building with white exterior walls constructed on the remains of an older water fortress. An English-style park surrounds the main structure, featuring lakes, walking paths, and spaces for performances.

Strážnice Chateau began as a royal castle founded after 1260, when the Strážnice region was permanently joined to the Kingdom of Bohemia following the Battle of Kressenbrunn. Together with Uherský Ostroh and Veselí nad Moravou it guarded the new border against raids from Hungary; archaeology dates it to the second half of the 13th century, while the first written mention comes from 1302. The Žerotín family had the Gothic castle rebuilt as a Renaissance château in the 16th century, and classicist and romantic alterations in the 19th century gave it its present form.

The castle now houses the National Institute of Folk Culture, which focuses on preserving the traditions of the region. The collections and library here document how people in Southeast Moravia lived and expressed themselves through music and crafts.

The park and buildings are accessible during regular visiting hours and can be explored easily on foot. Visitors should plan to spend enough time to see different parts of the grounds and tour the interior of the castle.

The château's outer wall still contains the masonry of the original castle core, 33 by 38 metres, with sections up to 2.8 metres thick; the south side was demolished only during Baroque work after 1723. In the northwest corner survive the remains of a square residential tower, 10.5 by 10.5 metres, once joined to the west palace.