An ancient Czech castle turned into a hotel
Now the castle is a luxury class hotel. All forty-three rooms available for guests are decorated with defiant luxury: if a bathroom renovation was carried out, then marble, gilding, expensive enamel, crystal were necessarily used – all whimsically intertwined in the form of plant patterns.
From the outside, the hotel is also quite capable of making an impression. Built in a U-shape, it almost surrounds a small garden, where luxurious flower beds grow right in the middle of the cobblestone.
Štiřín is surrounded by two gardens. One is a traditional English garden, in the style of British aristocratic estates of the early 20th century. This is a chaotic interweaving of wild plants with quite cultivated, precious, specially bred garden species, the neighborhood of neat lawns with seemingly completely forgotten glades.
The French garden, on the contrary, seems to have come to the castle straight from Versailles – straight lines of flower beds, paths, and clearings dominate here.
Around the parks, natural and artificial reservoirs are scattered haphazardly. A chapel adjoins the main building of the castle. Classical music evenings are held here.
In addition to quiet walks, the castle also offers opportunities for active recreation: there is a golf course.
The restaurant of Štiřín Castle focuses on European, in the broad sense of the word, and of course, traditional Czech cuisine.
The four-star Štiřín now remains a tourist attraction in itself. The fact is that the reconstruction works, which made the premises, including the guest rooms, more modern, were compensated – in favor of antiquity – by careful selection of furniture. And if the bathroom tiles scream – 'I'm modern, I'm from Spain!' – then the heavy furniture, beds, sofas, armchairs were made to special order and artificially aged.
Modernity breaks through in the form of the castle's equipment with a fitness center, jacuzzi, Internet access, and a bar that works until the last customer, which are already traditional for the tourism industry.
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