Telc Chateau
Italianate Renaissance chateau on the UNESCO-listed square at Telc, with the Golden Hall and arcaded garden.
Telc began as a Gothic castle and was turned into a Renaissance residence by Zacharias of Hradec, who travelled to Genoa with other Bohemian nobles in 1551 and came home full of Italian ideas. Work began in 1553, the year of his marriage to Katerina of Valdstejn, whose dowry of silver mines helped pay for it, and the couple's coats of arms appear on portals, facades and ceilings throughout. Italian masters led the rebuilding, and Baldassare Maggi of Arogno probably settled the final form of the complex.
The grandest room is the Golden Hall, running the length of the later north palace, while low arcades edge the Renaissance garden and the sepulchral Chapel of All Saints was added in 1580. Because the chateau was never sold, only inherited, passing from the Slavata family to the Podstatsky family who lived there until 1945, its interiors survive largely unaltered. It stands at one end of the arcaded market square of Telc, listed by UNESCO in 1992, and is run by the National Heritage Institute.
Highlights
- The Golden Hall with its coffered and painted Renaissance ceiling
- Arcaded loggias framing the Renaissance garden
- Chapel of All Saints, added as a burial chapel in 1580
- Interiors that passed by inheritance and were never sold off
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