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Jezeří is one of the biggest chateaux in this country: it has 244 rooms over a total of nine storeys.
The entire north-east wing of the Jezeří Castle was designed for taking meals – two basements with an icehouse, kitchen, three dining rooms on individual floors connected by a dining lift.
The extensive piano nobile has a unique polygonal entrance hall with a bifurcated staircase and theatre cum gallery.
Jezeří Castle is associated with many prominent cultural and historical figures who visited here, for example
- George of Poděbrady
- Ch. W. Gluck
- L. van Beethoven
- G. Casanova
- J. W. von Goethe
- Austrian Empress Marie Louise
- Prussian Prince Louis Ferdinand
- the poet K. H. Mácha
- Karel Němec (son of the writer Božena Němcová)
- Jan Masaryk
- Pierre de Gaulle
- Prince Charles
- Queen Beatrix of the Nethelands
... and many others.