Karlštejn
Czechia
Karlštejn stands thirteen kilometres east of Beroun and thirty kilometres south-west of central Prague, in the middle of the Bohemian Karst protected landscape. The name is German, Karls-stein, Charles's stone or Charles's rock castle. Its founder spelled it out himself. In the charter of the castle chapter, issued in 1357, Charles IV wrote that he had built Karlštejn from its foundations as something entirely new, and had ordered it named after himself so that his memory would last. The castle has been open to the public continuously since 1905, which makes it one of the longest-accessible monuments in the country.
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