After entering Czechia via Prague, I traveled by bus to Brno to join my travel content creation colleagues traverseevents and one of our first group activities was a visit to szlednice. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site that’s part of the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, selected as one of only 34 sites in the EU to be featured in the ‘World Heritage Journeys’ sustainable travel platform developed in collaboration with National Geographic and supported by the European Union. The Lednice we visited is a Neo-Gothic reconstruction from the 19th century built on a Renaissance chateau and Gothic fort on land whose records date back to at least 1222. A former residence of the Liechtensteins - and long before them the Austrian nobleman Sigfried Sirotek in 1249; it is surrounded by one of Europe's largest parks containing the Palm House, the Venetian fountain, Roman aqueduct, the Chinese Pavilion, artificial ruins minaret and Johns Castle. We were only given enough time to rush through par...
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