Sights > Castles > Šternberk
20.3.2010 Zuzka / Number of presentasion: 22112
Horní náměstí 6, 785 01 Šternberk
GPS: 49° 43' 59" N 17° 18' 07" E
49.7331733 49.7331733
Tel.: +420 585 012 935 / E-mail
A sizeable castle founded by the Sternberg family in the 13th century, gradually enlarged in the Renaissance style and adapted in Baroque; after the Prussian-Austrian wars renovated by the Lichtenstein family in the style of Romantic Historism. A park. Historical interiors with valuable furnishings and collections (a chapel, a bedroom, the Knights Hall) with remains of Gothic paintings and a collection of Gothic art. A museum of clocks. A collection of medieval clock machines, world clocks, clocks driven by the atmospheric pressure and others.