Nižbor Chateau – Have you ever been to the site of a discovered treasure?

For several years now, Nižbor Chateau has been the home of the Celtic Information Centre, which has become a centre dedicated not only to a long-extinct culture, but also to the newly awakening Celtic tradition.

This unusual exhibition surely take all your senses and at least at firt moment you feel that you have transferred in time. Scenes and symbols with a captivating music projected onto walls create an atmosphere in which you read details about the life of the Celts. You receive the informations by using touch screens on which you can browse the various links.
Celtic exhibition occupies a hall and three rooms and is divided into four thematic units. In the hall you can find air photos and information concerning our oppidums, of which three (Stradonice, Zavist by Zbraslav and Hrazany) are close to each other, west of Prague. In the hall will certainly not remain unnoticed a corner where is side-by-side a skeleton of a man and a figure for comparison, as the decedent likely looked. Another corner is stylized like Celtic dwellings.

This year the information center of Celtic culture also offers an exhibition "The Iron Age is the Iron Age - the beginning of ironwork" which introduces visitors to the first steps to mastering the technology of compaction of iron and gradual expansion of knowledge in then prehistoric Europe. The exhibition runs until 24 October 2009.

When you visit Nižbor you can also see the production of glass with your own eyes. The firm RÜCKL CRYSTAL a.s. offers sightseeing tours of its glassworks, with expert commentary, for groups and for individual tourists. Over the course of the excursion, visitors are introduced to the separate stages involved in the production of handmade crystal products, including the furnaces, processing, design-cutting and polishing.

Nižbor history is quite interesting because the village did not emerge as a village around the castle, as it is typical for towns and villages below the castle. The village Nižbor is much newer than the castle. The basis of the village was an iron-mill, which was founded here in the first half of the 16th century. The iron-mill became extinct in the second half of the 19th century, whereby Nižbor lost job opportunities and some people had to move for work.
Fortunately, before the end of the 19th century, Nižbor became popular thanks its beautiful nature, a calm, a river, and the proximity of Prague and has been increasingly a popular recreation center. A visit rate has even increased by creating a nature canoe trails at Berounka and reconstruction of the castle.