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Greenhouses to visit in the Czech Republic

The Verrière atlas lists 30 greenhouses in the Czech Republic, built between 1734 and 2006.

The Czech Republic owes its finest historic glasshouses to its châteaux: the 92-metre cast-iron nave at Lednice, the classical glasshouses of the Květná zahrada at Kroměříž, the Empire-style palm house at Opočno, in use since 1820, and the one at Lány, saved in 1921 by Masaryk and Plečnik. The turn of the millennium added unusual shapes: Liberec's glasshouses laid out like a crystal cluster, Eva Jiřičná's New Orangery at Prague Castle and Fata Morgana, a 130-metre ribbon set against the rock at Troja. The zoos of Prague and Zlín added tropical halls of their own in 2004 and 2006.

30Greenhouses
1734Oldest — Baroque Orangery of Manětín Château (zámecká oranžérie)
2006Newest — Yucatán Tropical Hall, Zlín Zoo (Tropická hala Yucatan)
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Plzeň Region (4)

Baroque Orangery of Manětín Château (zámecká oranžérie), Manětín, Plzeň Region
1734 · 2020

Baroque Orangery of Manětín Château (zámecká oranžérie)

🇨🇿 Manětín, Plzeň Region
Beneath the plaster of this Baroque orangery, the 2019-2020 restoration brought eighteenth-century wall paintings back to light.
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1950 · 2018

Tropical Pavilion of Plzeň Zoo (Tropický pavilon)

🇨🇿 Plzeň (Lochotín), Plzeň Region
A 1950s zoo pavilion renovated as a tropical glasshouse: butterflies fly beside Philippine crocodiles under a glass roof.
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Palm House and Greenhouses of Kozel Château (palmový skleník), Šťáhlavy, Plzeň Region

Palm House and Greenhouses of Kozel Château (palmový skleník)

🇨🇿 Šťáhlavy, Plzeň Region
Open to the public since 2024, Kozel's palm house holds palms several metres tall and remnants of a noble plant collection.
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Červené Poříčí Château Orangery (oranžerie), Červené Poříčí, Plzeň Region

Červené Poříčí Château Orangery (oranžerie)

🇨🇿 Červené Poříčí, Plzeň Region
A small baroque orangery, long used as a forestry shed, reopened after restoration with a large sloping glazed front.
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Central Bohemian Region (3)

Dobříš Château Orangery (Oranžérie), Dobříš, Central Bohemian Region
1760

Dobříš Château Orangery (Oranžérie)

🇨🇿 Dobříš, Central Bohemian Region
An orangery almost 90 m long whose north façade carries painted trompe-l'œil architecture, recreated (most of it in 2020-2022, the rest in 2024).
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Palm Greenhouse in the Lány Château Park (palmový skleník), Lány, Central Bohemian Region
1879–1881

Palm Greenhouse in the Lány Château Park (palmový skleník)

🇨🇿 Lány, Central Bohemian Region
Marked for demolition in 1921, the Fürstenbergs' palm house was saved by Masaryk and Plečnik, who added a new wing in 1923.
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Rose Garden Greenhouses, Konopiště Château (Růžová zahrada), Konopiště, Benešov, Central Bohemian Region

Rose Garden Greenhouses, Konopiště Château (Růžová zahrada)

🇨🇿 Konopiště, Benešov, Central Bohemian Region
Palms planted at Archduke Franz Ferdinand's request still grow here, under glass rebuilt between 1995 and 2000.
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Hradec Králové Region (3)

Palm Greenhouse in the Opočno Château Park (palmový skleník), Opočno, Hradec Králové Region
1820

Palm Greenhouse in the Opočno Château Park (palmový skleník)

🇨🇿 Opočno, Hradec Králové Region
Since 1820 this Empire-style greenhouse has overwintered the citrus, olive, palm and oleander trees that adorn the château in summer.
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Palm Greenhouse of Kopidlno Château (palmový skleník), Kopidlno, Hradec Králové Region
1893–1894

Palm Greenhouse of Kopidlno Château (palmový skleník)

🇨🇿 Kopidlno, Hradec Králové Region
A scaled-down echo of the Schönbrunn palm house, built in 1894 for Count Erwin Schlik and now tended by a horticultural school.
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Collection Greenhouse of the Medicinal Plant Garden, Faculty of Pharmacy of Charles University (sbírkový skleník), Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Region
2000

Collection Greenhouse of the Medicinal Plant Garden, Faculty of Pharmacy of Charles University (sbírkový skleník)

🇨🇿 Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Region
A 380 m² glasshouse, up to 8 m high, growing more than 120 tropical and subtropical species, nearly half of them medicinal.
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South Moravian Region (3)

Fig House (Fíkovna), Lysice Château, Lysice, South Moravian Region
1835

Fig House (Fíkovna), Lysice Château

🇨🇿 Lysice, South Moravian Region
An 1835 fig house whose glazed roof rolls away on rails into the slope behind it, the only working example left in the Czech Republic.
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Glasshouses of the Masaryk University Faculty of Science Botanical Garden (skleníky), Brno, South Moravian Region
1995–1997

Glasshouses of the Masaryk University Faculty of Science Botanical Garden (skleníky)

🇨🇿 Brno, South Moravian Region
A giant water lily flowered here as early as 1926 in a makeshift sunken greenhouse; five tunnel-shaped glasshouses took over in 1997.
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1996–1997

Glasshouses of the Mendel University Botanical Garden and Arboretum (skleníky MENDELU)

🇨🇿 Brno, South Moravian Region
Glasshouses of 800 to 850 m² hold about 4,000 orchid taxa, one of the largest collections in Europe.
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Zlín Region (3)

Glasshouses of the Květná zahrada (Flower Garden), Kroměříž, Zlín Region
1840–1845

Glasshouses of the Květná zahrada (Flower Garden)

🇨🇿 Kroměříž, Zlín Region
Two classicist glasshouses of the 1840s frame the entrance to a 17th-century garden on the World Heritage List.
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Yucatán Tropical Hall, Zlín Zoo (Tropická hala Yucatan), Zlín (Lešná), Zlín Region
2006

Yucatán Tropical Hall, Zlín Zoo (Tropická hala Yucatan)

🇨🇿 Zlín (Lešná), Zlín Region
Visitors enter this tropical glasshouse through a replica of the Nunnery of Chichén Itzá, leading into a Central American rainforest.
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Castle Nursery Greenhouses and Fuchsia Collection of Buchlovice Château

🇨🇿 Buchlovice, Zlín Region
A collection of about 1,200 fuchsia varieties, among the most renowned in Central Europe, grown in the nursery of a Baroque château.
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Olomouc Region (2)

Neo-Gothic Orangery of Čechy pod Kosířem Château (zámecká oranžérie), Čechy pod Kosířem, Olomouc Region
1852–1853

Neo-Gothic Orangery of Čechy pod Kosířem Château (zámecká oranžérie)

🇨🇿 Čechy pod Kosířem, Olomouc Region
This neo-Gothic orangery of 1853 bears a coat of arms designed by Josef Mánes, and citrus trees are still grown in it.
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Flora Olomouc Collection Greenhouses (sbírkové skleníky), Olomouc, Olomouc Region
1927–1930

Flora Olomouc Collection Greenhouses (sbírkové skleníky)

🇨🇿 Olomouc, Olomouc Region
The listed palm house of 1927-1930 shelters some fifty palm species, including specimens over a century old that came from Moravian castle greenhouses.
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Troja (2)

Fata Morgana Greenhouse (skleník Fata Morgana), Prague, Troja
2004

Fata Morgana Greenhouse (skleník Fata Morgana)

🇨🇿 Prague, Troja
An S-shaped ribbon 130 metres long, backed by the rock of the Troja hillside, running through three tropical climates.
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Indonesian Jungle Pavilion (Indonéská džungle), Prague Zoo, Prague, Troja
2004

Indonesian Jungle Pavilion (Indonéská džungle), Prague Zoo

🇨🇿 Prague, Troja
Opened in 2004 beneath an elliptical glass dome, this pavilion was at the time the most expensive project in the history of Czech zoos.
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Elsewhere (10)

1811 · 2023

Orangery in the Letohrad Castle Park (exotic plants, Australian aviary and marine aquarium)

🇨🇿 Letohrad, Pardubice Region
A 19th-century orangery reopened in 2023, half exotic glasshouse, half Australia with a giant aviary and a marine aquarium.
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Lednice Castle Greenhouse (zámecký skleník), Lednice, South Moravia
1843–1845

Lednice Castle Greenhouse (zámecký skleník)

🇨🇿 Lednice, South Moravia
Commissioned in 1842 by the Prince of Liechtenstein, this 92 m nave of cast iron and glass carries some 65,000 scale-shaped panes.
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Orangery and Winter Garden of Světlá nad Sázavou Château (zámecký skleník), Světlá nad Sázavou, Vysočina Region
1865–1868

Orangery and Winter Garden of Světlá nad Sázavou Château (zámecký skleník)

🇨🇿 Světlá nad Sázavou, Vysočina Region
A winter garden of cast iron and glass whose waterfall grotto is presented as the only one preserved in a Czech greenhouse.
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Historic Glasshouse of Valeč Château (historický skleník), Valeč, Karlovy Vary Region
1895

Historic Glasshouse of Valeč Château (historický skleník)

🇨🇿 Valeč, Karlovy Vary Region
A Viennese glasshouse with a 15-metre dome, dismantled in Vienna and re-erected in 1895 in the baroque park of Valeč.
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Glasshouses of the Charles University Botanical Garden (Na Slupi), Prague, New Town (Na Slupi)
1946–1949

Glasshouses of the Charles University Botanical Garden (Na Slupi)

🇨🇿 Prague, New Town (Na Slupi)
Rebuilt after the Allied bombing of 14 February 1945, these university glasshouses shelter a Cycas circinalis more than 130 years old.
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Greenhouses of the Faculty of Tropical Agriculture Botanical Garden (ČZU, Suchdol), Prague, Suchdol
1968

Greenhouses of the Faculty of Tropical Agriculture Botanical Garden (ČZU, Suchdol)

🇨🇿 Prague, Suchdol
Some 2,000 species of useful tropical and subtropical plants and a national collection of 164 citrus, in a Prague faculty's greenhouses.
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Tropical Greenhouses of the Liberec Botanical Garden, Liberec
1996–2000

Tropical Greenhouses of the Liberec Botanical Garden

🇨🇿 Liberec
The Czech Republic's oldest botanical garden (1895) gained, a century later, the country's most singular greenhouse complex, its footprint mimicking a cluster of crystals.
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New Orangery, Royal Garden of Prague Castle (Nová oranžerie), Prague, Hradčany
1999–2001

New Orangery, Royal Garden of Prague Castle (Nová oranžerie)

🇨🇿 Prague, Hradčany
A glass and stainless-steel tube nearly 90 metres long, designed by Eva Jiřičná against the Renaissance wall of the Royal Garden.
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Tropicana Greenhouse, Teplice Botanical Garden (skleník Tropicana), Teplice, Ústí nad Labem Region
2004–2005

Tropicana Greenhouse, Teplice Botanical Garden (skleník Tropicana)

🇨🇿 Teplice, Ústí nad Labem Region
One of the largest and tallest display greenhouses in the Czech Republic, it also recreates the Teplice landscape of 20 million years ago.
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Tropical greenhouses of the Malešice botanical garden (SOŠ Jarov), Prague, Malešice

Tropical greenhouses of the Malešice botanical garden (SOŠ Jarov)

🇨🇿 Prague, Malešice
A Washingtonia palm over a century old, sheltered each winter in a pupil-built mobile greenhouse, crowns a horticultural school's tropical collections.
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