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Zámek Šilheřovice

Czechia

Arrive by the approach road and the house turns its face to you: a broad, three-winged building wrapped around a cour d'honneur that opens to the north-west, with a dome rising on the main block exactly on the axis of the courtyard. That dome is what holds the whole composition together. Šilheřovice is a Classicist château, protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic, but what you are looking at is Classicism overlaid with a later pseudo-Baroque rebuilding carried out in the second half of the 19th century.

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