Valtice is a small town in South Moravian Region close to the austrian border. It contains one of the most impressive Baroque residences of Central Europe. It was designed as the seat of the ruling princes of Liechtenstein by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in the early 18th century. Together with the neighbouring manor of Lednice, to which it is connected by a 7 kilometres long lime-tree avenue, Valtice forms the LedniceValtice Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.The town is kown as a centre of wine making Moravia. Both the National Wine Center and the Wine Salon of the Czech Republic reside in the Valtice Chateau.
For those interested in architecture, the village itself has an impressive town hall and an early Baroque church overlooking the main square.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape: between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains in southern Moravia into a striking landscape. It married Baroque achtitecture and the classical and Neo-Gothic style of the castles of Lednice and Valtice with countryside fashioned according to English romantic principles of landscape architecture. At 200 km2, it is one of the largest artifical landscapes in Europe.
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