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zámek Linhartovy

Czechia

Stand at the gate of Linhartovy and the border is closer than you might think. The River Opavice runs about fifty metres from the walls, and here the river is the frontier between Czechia and Poland. The castle sits on its right bank, in a village that now belongs to Město Albrechtice, a little under ten kilometres from Krnov. It is a broad, four-winged building with a single cylindrical tower, protected as a cultural monument. The park around it spreads across both sides of the border, and somewhere in it stands an oak whose age is estimated at 850 years. Treat that figure as an estimate, but it is a useful one: the tree is older than anything else you will see here.

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