Valtice is a very old village, whose fate is written in the history of the past.
Written reports on it within the last years of the 12th century. Valtice original settlers have chosen not just the healthiest area of ​​Moravia is mainly due to security. Indeed, the marshes of the region hordes of hostile aliens too nevábily Palavske Hills and close to provide them - as the other inhabitants of the ancient settlements - a solid backing in times of greatest peril.
The first written historical accounts of Valtice known only at the turn of the 12th century, when this place was transferred from the land titles of the Passau bishop power family of Seefeld.
Charter, issued in Regensburg, confirmed the Emperor Henry VI. shift in 1192, signed by the Bishop of Passau Wolfker with Wichard from Seefeld - "Maior dapifer - more truksasem Austrian Duke. This shift forward Wolfker Wichard castle "Veldesperch" Royal with 12 acres that made up about most of the later town of Valtice.
Seefeldové built a big border castle, the castle was established in the city. It can be assumed that Valtice became cities between 1192 - 1227th
After the family died Seefelds the sword in 1270 and won Valtice Kuenringové Rauhensteinové. In 1347 they sold their share Kuenringové Potendorfům, so that from this year are divided between the Valtice and Potendorfy Rauhenstein.
In 1387, bequeathed the third wife of John I. Lichtenstein Elizabeth, born Puchheimova, her husband-sixth share of the Valtice Lichtensteins became the custodian of the city. Thus begins a long era of Lichtenstein in Valtice.
John bought in February 1391 with his brothers George and Hartneidem of Friedrich von Lichtenstein from his ancestral Potendorfu Valtice sixth and another sixth, won House said later, except that received different salaries and pensions from a wide range of surrounding hamlets and villages, it is the right place Valtice castle and that was his free property.
Thus Lichtensteins actually gained five sixths of the city and the tenure of most municipalities.
In February 1395 became the Lichtensteins estate owners, the castle and the town of Valtice.
A significant figure, which marked a new stage in the city, was Charles of Lichtenstein, a Protestant from the beginning, since 1599 has converted to Catholicism.
Karel of Lichtenstein concluded in September 1606 with his brothers and Maximilian Gundakar agreement under which all the brothers had managed Valtice goods together and the ruler should always be the firstborn of primogeniture, the property was thus created fideikomis.
Until 1684 the lordship Valtice Eusbius Karl von Lichtenstein, educated abroad, especially in Paris. Valtice in his time became a real residential town of Lichtenstein. Karl Eusebius like staying here. Therefore, there had to build a significant portion of the current castle building and in the years 1631 - 1671 a new parish church.
The chateau was confiscated after the World War II.
The chateau is open from April until October.
The place is famous with the wine-tasting.

The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape (also Lednice-Valtice Area or Lednice-Valtice Complex, Czech: Lednicko-valtický areál) is a cultural-natural complex of 283,09 km² in the Czech Republic, South Moravian Region, close to Břeclav and Mikulov.
The Lednice-Valtice Area is registered in the list of monuments protected as World Heritage by UNESCO next to another site - Pálava Landscape Protected Area, registered by UNESCO only a few years prior to the nearby Pálava Biosphere Reserve. Such close vinicity of two landscape systems protected by UNESCO is world-unique.
At the end of the 18th century, the local manor lordship - the House of Liechtenstein - began to create a unique manmade landscape complex - The Lednice - Valtice Area. During the 19th century, the Liechtenstein family continued transforming the area, which has since been called the "Garden of Europe", into a large landscape park with two centres:
Lednice chateau
and Valtice chateau
The town of Valtice contains one of the most impressive Baroque residences of Central Europe. It was designed as the seat of the ruling princes of Liechtenstein by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in the early 18th century. Construction was supervised by Domenico Martinelli, who was employed as an on-site architect. The palace is surrounded by an English park with the Temple of Diana (1812) and other neoclassical structures. Together with the neighbouring manor of Lednice, to which it is connected by a 7 km-long lime-tree avenue, Valtice forms the World Heritage Site Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape. The princely family lost all its privileges with the collapse of their protectors the Habsburg Empire and by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia in 1918, the predecessor of the Czech Republic; and the castle was confiscated after World War II, when the Communists took power.
Lednice-Valtice AreaThe Garden of Europe spreads in the warmest place of the Czech Republic area close to Mikulov town. This part of land is full of architectural jewels, romantic nooks, unique nature reserves, beautiful place for many activities especially during tourist season.
The Garden of Europe means not only famous Neo-Gothic Chateau Lednice with an extensive park, protected as World Heritage by UNESCO, but also colourful folklore, the Viticultural Educational Route, hospitable people, and countless curtural events.
Lednice is the best-known tourist destination in south Moravia. All roads in the Chateau park lead to the Minaret. The galery, 60 metres high, provides a view of the entire Garden of Europe. It is easy to see from this point the magnificent Pálava Hills and Malé Karpaty Mountains, when weather allows. The whole Lednice-Valtice Area shows many other sightseeings as middle-age castle imitations like Janohrad, the empire temple Apollónův chrám, the classic salet Tři Grácie, and the classic castle Rybniční zámeček. All of these sightseeings are connected by a network of bike roads located in wooded area.

SE from Prague, 3 hours to drive
Trip:
1)Lednice-Valtice area - 9 hour round trip
Trips combinations:
2)Lednice and Valtice SEE8+SEE17 + Namest chateau SEE7 - 12 hour round trip
3)Lednice and Valtice SEE8+SEE17 + Jaromerice chateau SEE6 - 12 hour round trip
4)Lednice and Valtice SEE8+SEE17 + Moravsky Krumlov, Alfons Mucha´s Slav Epic SEE5 - 12 hour round trip
5)Lednice and Valtice SEE8+SEE17 + Mikulov SEE9 - 12 hour round trip
6)Lednice and Valtice SEE8+SEE17 + Vranov chateau SEE10 - 12 hour round trip
7)Lednice and Valtice SEE8+SEE17 + Moravian Karst SEE4 - 12 hour round trip
8)Lednice and Valtice SEE8+SEE17 + Brno and Austerlitz SEE3 - 12 hour round trip
9)Lednice and Valtice SEE8+SEE17 + Catholic Pilgrim Sites in Moravia SEE11 - 13-14 hour round trip


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