[1][2] Český Šternberk Castle is today a residence that bears a long historical and architectural heritage and represents an attractive tourist destination open to the public.

[1][7] With the death of Imperial Count Jan Václav on 1712, who served as High Burgrave of Moravia, the Holický branch of the House of Sternberg died out and its ownership passed to other families, who in 1751 built the lower palace next to the surrounding wall.

[1] The family moved to a small flat in Prague and Jiří Sternberg, agreed to work as a steward in his own property and gave tours within the castle, which became a sightseeing spot.

[6] After the fall of Communism and the Velvet Revolution, in 1992, thanks to the restitution's law, Český Šternberk Castle returned to Jiří's son, the count Zdeněk Sternberg.

It stands on top of a steep granite cliff on the western banks of the Sázava river in the market town of Český Šternberk, 39 kilometres (24 mi) southeast of the capital Prague, along D1 motorway.

[3] Český Šternberk Castle appears in several scenes throughout the Albanian-Czech romantic drama film The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider (Czech: Smutek paní Snajdrové).

[12][13] Count Zdeněk Sternberg, happy to meet the Italian actor and after learning that he was interpreting his father in the movie, generously offered free use of the castle's spaces.