Švihov Castle

Benedikt Rejt invented the castle's moat system with massive bastions (horseshoe shaped ground plans opened into the keep).

After the war, Emperor Ferdinand III ordered the demolition of the castle, possibly out of fear for it being an "unconquerable fort of anti-Habsburg resistance".

The castle consists of two residential palaces, five-level entrance tower and a chapel built on top of the bastion.

The castle's interior consists of typical late Gothic and Renaissance furnishings: furniture, rich tapestries, pewter and copper kitchenware, weapons and arms.

The entrance hall has a net vault, it's ribs lean onto decorated consoles and converge into one paint keystone.