This museum, housed beneath the southern terrace of Konopiště chateau, is testament to one of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s obsessions: St George. Here he collected scores of renderings of the mythical dragon-slayer in a purpose-built gallery; this is only some 10% of the hoard.
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The first of two main gates into the Vyšehrad complex when coming from the metro is a 17th-century archway marked with a lively, faux-Gothic top.
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