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Pałac Rotszyldów - Hotel i Restauracja

Czechia

You arrive at a Baroque palace that sits just 300 metres from the border bridge over the Oder, a crossing that worked as a frontier checkpoint until December 2007. Today the building in Chałupki, in Racibórz county, is a hotel, a restaurant and a venue for receptions, and it is listed in the Silesian register of immovable monuments. Locals also know it by an older name, Zamek Bogumiński, Bogumin Castle. That name points across the river, because for most of its history this place answered to the town on the other bank. The river and the ford, not the bedrooms, are the reason it exists at all.

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