I really dig this place. It was built by the Lichtensteins and is in the middle of a giant…read morebeautiful park. Probably one of my top parks out there. I believe they used it to sometimes entertain guests, and the guided tour of the chateau is great. We had a really humorous tour guide who told us about one of the queens who apparently had 24 children as well as a clever king who imported a giant Viennese mirror so he could look at a painting that his wife didn't want him to see. A lot of the park is actually artificial--with artificial lakes and ponds, but still beautiful nonetheless. There is a giant mineret that you can also climb to get some beautiful views of Lednice but unfortunately we didn't have the time to go. It was cool to learn about the Lichtensteins because apparently they wanted to keep this park open, so entrance to the park area is free. Another UNESCO site! tldr; great park, great ostentatious chateau, but very interesting history about the LIchtensteins

The chateau and grounds of Lednice (for centuries called Eisgrub) are very impressive. The former…read moresummer home of the Austrian Liechtenstein family is now located in the Czech Republic and it's planned landscape is twinned with its sister chateau at Valtice as a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site and Landscape. The Chateau itself is in a neo-Gothic style with amazing woodwork inside - specially the famous wooden spiral staircase. Surrounding the chateau are lovely gardens and grounds which you can hike around or ride through in a horse-drawn carriage or you can take a slow boat cruise. (note - bicycling on the grounds is technically not allowed but everyone does it anyway) There are many monuments and follies to see here with the most famous one being the minaret at the head of the lake. At the time of its construction it was the tallest minaret outside the Islamic world. And all this is located right next to the small village of Lednice which has restaurants and cafes where one can enjoy a meal and naturally drink some (or a lot) of the local South Moravian wine!