Czech Republic is home to 12 UNESCO site and in 2014 I visited 7 of them. Kroměříž wasn't one of them but it's on my list the next time I visit the country.
Last week I've got an official card from there that I'm posting here today with a multivew Milan sent me a few years ago.
The ensemble formed by the archiepiscopal castle, an adjacent garden (Podzámecká zahrada) and a pleasure garden (Květná zahrada) situated nearby, is located in the historic centre of the town of Kroměříž, in the Zlín region of the Czech Republic.
Kroměříž stands on the site of an earlier ford across the River Morava, at the foot of the Chriby mountain range which dominates the central part of Moravia. The gardens and castle of Kroměříž are an exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a European Baroque princely residence and its gardens. - in: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/860
CZ-1568876, sent by Emil.
The Archbishop’s Chateau in Kroměříž belongs to the key cultural heritage sites in Moravia. It has been the property of the bishops and archbishops of Olomouc, who used it as their representative residence. In the middle of the 13th century, Bishop Bruno von Schauenburg (1245–1281) (...) built a gothic castle in the place of the current chateau (...). During the episcopacy of Stanislaus Thurzo (1496–1554) the castle had been rebuilt to a renaissance chateau.
The Thirty Years’ War greatly damaged the town and the chateau. In 1643 the Swedish troops lead by general Torstenson seized and plundered the town. The reconstruction started during the rule of Bishop Karl von Liechtenstein-Castelcorno (1665–1694) following the projects of imperial court architects F. Luchese and G. P. Tencalla. At the time the chateau gained more or less its current look. The chateau suffered severe damage in the 1752 fire during which dozens of houses burned down and the second floor of the chateau was destroyed.
Major reconstructions in the 20th century concentrated on the tower, which was set on fire by the retreating German armies in the last few days of World War II.
In 1998 the complex of the chateau and the gardens was entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List. - in: https://www.zamek-kromeriz.cz/en/about-the-castle-and-the-gardens/archbishop-castle
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