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A private tour to real Konopiště Castle, genuine home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Konopiště Castle, genuine home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Konopiště Castle, the genuine former home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, with real weaponry, hunting collections, and the Rose Garden.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Prague.
Genuine Franz Ferdinand connection.
Genuine castle grounds.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Konopiště Castle, genuine home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Konopiště Castle, the genuine former home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, with real weaponry, hunting collections, and the Rose Garden.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria bought Konopiště in 1887, at age 24, and spent the next 27 years turning what had been a declining aristocratic estate into his own private retreat — a place, among other things, where he could live openly with Countess Sophie Chotek, the woman he married against the explicit wishes of the Habsburg court, which never fully accepted her as his equal in rank.
Franz Ferdinand was also, by any measure, an extraordinarily prolific hunter — over his lifetime he is credited with roughly 300,000 kills, including exotic trophies brought back from a ten-month round-the-world tour that took him through India, China, Japan, Australia, and the Americas. Around 100,000 of those trophies still line Konopiště's walls today, most individually labelled with the date and place of the kill, filling the long Trophy Corridor and the antler-covered Chamois Room, whose centrepiece chandelier is fashioned from a stuffed condor. Beyond the trophies, Franz Ferdinand assembled the Este Armoury, one of the largest private weapons collections in Europe, along with paintings, statues, ceramics, and glass, much of it built around the theme of Saint George slaying the dragon, since he reportedly dreamed of one day hosting King George of England and surprising him with the collection.
None of that collecting hints at what the man is actually remembered for. On 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo, an event that set off the chain of diplomatic and military escalation that led, within weeks, to the outbreak of the First World War. Konopiště's real Rose Garden, also part of this tour, is the gentler side of the same story: the grounds he actually lived on, before that single day in Sarajevo changed the course of 20th-century Europe.
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