Pernstejn Castle
Pernstejn Castle
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Steve G
218 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2022 • Family
I’d say it’s a pretty romantic castle and can easily see why it would feature in films. The tour was good, even if it was only in Czech. I didn’t feel like I lost out on much with the provided Pamphlet in English.

You park at the base and can hike up or take the gussied up tractor pulling a passenger trailer. That’ll cost you a little money but they take cash only.
Written August 31, 2022
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Martina
London, UK37 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2023 • Family
This castle was on my bucket list for so long, my uncle lives in a city nearby but I never got to visit.
Finally I got to visit last year. I was not dissapointed - it was everything I imagined. The castle is filled with so much history, art and much more.
The tour was in czech but we are from Slovakia so we had no problems with that. I am not sure if they offer tours in other languages.

I would deff visit again!
Written March 7, 2024
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TassieTravellers99
Launceston, Australia3,192 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
May 2014 • Couples
This is a stunningly set castle and first got our attention having featured in the movie Van Helsing.
The access road was a beautifully forested drive although they had to do some work on the car park. The driveway was a rough mud track and spaces were basically found where ever you could fit between the trees. It was a fairly poor setup for a fifty kroner fee.
The palace building and towers were set at the top of the hill with its gatehouses running down the hill towards us.
We had a wonderful view of the castle and the uniquely shaped tower of the Four Seasons. It stood out as an excellent sight and we began to recognise bits from the Van Helsing movie.
We came to the palace and into the top courtyard. Here we had a view of the chapel and the clock tower. The chapel was quite small and very different to any we had seen. The walls had been painted and some of these were of furniture effects such as altars. At first you thought you were looking at a full blown altar piece. We found a rickety staircase up to the Four Seasons Tower that led to a chamber which contained a grated over oubliette. It was massive. They must have had a lot of prisoners.
The only way to see the interior is by guided tour. We got a fairly tattered English handout to read. The good thing was that it seemed to cover all the material that the young punk tour guide went through. He seemed more intent on his i-phone than on providing an interactive tour. Alas it was difficult to take in the tour as no photography was allowed and the rooms were sparsely furnished. This did make it feel like it dragged.
It started in a nicely designed entrance hall with a honeycombed vaulted ceiling before leading into the Tyrolean courtyard. We then gained access to the top of the tower via a timbered closed in bridge from the main palace building. We were told that photography was allowed here. He only said it in Czech but we had learnt the Czech word for photo. Everyone jumped for their cameras. It was a lovely vantage point overlooking the rest of the castle and the village of Pernstejn below. From here the tour took in the blue or new kitchen and we passed the black or old kitchen. There was an impressive Knights Hall with finely decorated vaulted ceilings and family portraits. There were several functional rooms and bedrooms and a trophy room overwhelmed with kills.
In the end it was a 70 minute tour and whilst it enhanced the visit to the castle it could have been done much better.
Written August 23, 2014
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Michael Giele
Amsterdam, The Netherlands46 contributions
2.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2015 • Family
The castle is fully focused on Czech (Slovakian) travellers. Tours in the castle are all fully in Czech, and you as a foreigner get a bunch of plastified sheets, or read of some small signs.

Be aware that you're not allowed to take pictures anywhere indoors. They do not properly warn you before you enter. There's a small sign in Czech, with one English sentence at the bottom.

The weapons exibition was impressive, especially the 18th century Arabic weaponry and Koran were interesting. The woman in the room only has one task, make sure no one enjoys their day. She's stalking you around making sure no one makes pictures, camera or not.

Besides that the dungeon was also pretty cool.

Why the low score? The place is not serviced for foreigners, poor signage and warnings, and the more you want to see the more you'll have to pay. (multiple wings of castle have different tours and pricing for each, no combo tickets).

Gardens are still closed for public.

Toilets next to the restaurant are free.
Written July 12, 2015
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Marek U
Warsaw, Poland379 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2016 • Family
It is a marvelous place. The castle of Tolkien's stories. The best journey is to walk up to the castle from the parking lot or take a small-gauge train (yuck). Anyway, must see.
Written October 8, 2016
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Martina N
Brno, Czech Republic10 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jun 2015
The castle is for me one of the nicest places in the world. It was founded in the 12th century and never been recharched. The architecture of the castle is very nice. The highest tower called Barborka, it is around 32 m and
the strongest wall is around 5 m. The other tower on the left side on the picture is called according year season :
spring-summer-autumn-winter. It is observation tower built by last owner of the castle earl Mitrowski in the
19th century. This tower was the same hight as the blade tower Barborka, but during the 30´s years war it was shelling by Sweden and the tower was damaged.
Many movies was filmed there as Joan of Arc, Van Helsing, many fairytales...
It is really nice place in the middle of the forest..
Written July 1, 2015
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Rudolf D
Bratislava, Slovakia34 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2014 • Friends
Might have difficulties to get there if you don't have GPS navigation, because we didn't see any tables to drive according to, but might be also our fault :)
Castle is located direction north from Brno, some 45 minutes to get there.
Be careful to change your money to Czech crowns, parking lot below the castle and also guided tour can be paid only in crowns (altogether 200 CZK).
Our guide was nice and knew answers to the questions from tourists, duration close to 2 hours.
Castle itself is very nice and for sure worth to visit.
Written July 22, 2014
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Nomad071
England37 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2014 • Friends
I visited this because Werner Herzog had used it for his film Nosferatu, and I was happy with viewing it from the outside, It does have an impressive visual impact. However, if you want a internal guided tour in English, you will need a minimum of 20 guests. Overall, there are better castles in the Czech Repblic, or the neighbouring Slovak Republic.
Written April 20, 2014
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Prokop G
Budapest, Hungary9 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2014 • Family
Excellent tour with family, children will like it. Never miss if you can take a bit longer route between Prague and Brno!
Written April 14, 2014
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Peter G
Evanston, IL49 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2019 • Couples
Well preserved gothic and early renaissance castle, never conquered. during visit you can find still original artifacts from 13. century. Tour take 80 minutes. Our guide was knowledgable and entertaining. For older people or small children, you have to climb narrow and dark stairs to 4.floor during the tour. parking lot is down, castle 20 minutes uphill. And don't forget to visit WC before buying tickets, no restroom after. Small cozy gift and coffee shop on place. Car access to castle and parking shoul be better, GPS sent me 1km over.
Season April - October.
The castle interiors played in several movies.
Written July 24, 2019
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