📍 Zámek Skalka

About the venue

Skalka is a baroque castle perched on a rocky spur above the Zlatý potok stream at the northern edge of Podbřezí in the Rychnov nad Kněžnou district. A Gothic stronghold first recorded in 1360 was rebuilt as a Renaissance manor by the Mladota ze Solopysk family around 1600, then remodelled into its current early-Rococo form between 1736 and 1739. The castle is a listed cultural monument and is known as the setting of Alois Jirásek's novel Temno, which he wrote after visiting in 1908. The interior is not open to the public, though the castle chapel occasionally hosts exhibitions.