A visit to Konopiste Chateau, one of Bohemia’s most beautiful chateaux is not to be missed. Built in the 13th century, the Chateau was originally built in the early Gothic style modelled on a French castle near Prague. Renaissance and Baroque reconstruction changed the castle into a grand stately home. At the end of the 19th century it was refurbished in the Romantic style for Franz Ferdinand d'Este, successor to the Habsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 served as a pretext to the start of World War I. The chateau offers a fine display of furniture, drape tapestries, sculptures, paintings and a cornucopia of hunting trophies. You will have a chance to see the representative areas of the chateau interiors documenting his life here as well as valuable works of art.