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Karlštejn Castle - The Jewel of the Holy Roman Empire

Spring 2017 - Karlštejn Castle (Czech: hrad Karlštejn; German: Burg Karlstein) is a large Gothic castle founded 1348 CE by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor-elect and King of Bohemia. The castle served as a place for safekeeping the Imperial Regalia as well as the Bohemian/Czech crown jewels, holy relics, and other royal treasures. Located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Prague above the village of the same name, it is one of the most famous and most frequently visited castles in the Czech Republic.

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Karlštejn, also called Karlův Týn during the Renaissance, is a medieval castle located in the cadastral territory of Budňany in the township of Karlštejn in the district of Beroun, about 30 km southwest of Prague, in the middle of the Český Karst Protected Landscape Area. The castle was founded around 1348 as a private representative residence of the Roman Emperor and Czech King Charles IV. Only with the passage of time, after Charles's imperial coronation in Rome in 1355, did the emperor change the purpose of the castle as a jewelry store for keeping the imperial coronation jewels and a collection of holy relics. The Czech crown jewels were not transferred to the castle until the early 1520s. Currently, the castle is an important national cultural monument and one of the most visited castles in the Czech Republic. Over 200,000 tourists visit the castle every year. The decoration of the most valuable space of the chapel of St. The cross in the Great Tower is an example of advanced Gothic painting. The castle is owned by the Czech Republic, managed by the National Institute of Monuments and is open to the public.

In the second part of the video, the Romantic Hotel Mlýn is filmed near the castle. A very picturesque place for a wedding or a pleasant sitting in a restaurant or garden.

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