Zookoutek Kroměříž

For children, this "zoo" will be enough. It has its charm when peacocks roam freely between you. If you walk through the castle and the park, then here it is along the way :)

Beautiful castle garden, castle, square

Great you can put races here with a goat but beware then you may be angry that you won the race but otherwise look at the peacocks you are very good The chateau garden is an integral part of the chateau and its oldest part was probably founded in the first half of the 16th century under Bishop Stanislav Thurz. The first written reports and pictures come from the late 16th century. It was a mixed, utility and ornamental garden. A significant change took place after 1664 under Bishop Charles II. from Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, when the garden was given an early Baroque form. According to the design by architect Filiberta Lucchese and his successor Giovanni Pietro Tencalla, the old utility garden was abolished and the ornamental section with the central broderi parterre, fountain and statues was extended. The garden was directly connected to the chateau, where a salla terrena was set up in the basement. At the end of the 18th century, Archbishop Colloredo-Waldsee made adjustments to the garden in the spirit of the Enlightenment, but continued the original solution. A colonnade with an adjacent flower terrace (giardino secreto) was added to the northern wing of the chateau building. The area has been extended with a canal with a poplar alley and decorated with many small buildings and objects for the entertainment and pleasure of visitors (gazebos, swings, artificial ruins with a waterfall, etc.).  romantic park with peacocks The transformation of the garden into a natural-landscaped park dates back to 1832 with the advent of Archbishop Ferdinand Chotek and his garden architect Anton Arche. The Baroque parterre turned into a large grassy area lined with tall trees and shrubs ending with a large pond (now Chotek's Pond). Picturesque corners and scenery were created around the original and newly built small buildings. After Chotek's death, Archbishop Maximilian Sommerau-Beckh continued to modify the park and expand it. In the new part of the park was built Maximilian's yard-stables and cattle breeding facilities, the Pompeii Colonnade, a network of waterways with new bridges. During this period, the garden flourished and gained the current layout and area of ​​more than 60 hectares. In the second half of the 19th century, under the archbishop Bedřich of Fürstenberg, the overall landscape concept of the Chateau Garden was not changed. Attention was paid to building alterations to existing buildings such as Paví dvůr, the Fishing Pavilion or the Pompeii Colonnade, a large stone staircase was built on the side of the castle, allowing access to the garden from the square. At the turn of the second millennium, two natural disasters hit the Chateau Garden. In 1997, it was a flood, and in 2001, a windstorm destroyed more than 400 mature trees. [5] As part of the project of the National Garden Culture Center at the National Heritage Institute, attention is paid to the restoration and care of the Podzámecká Garden area. In the first phase of the project, a new gardening facility was built in 2012. [6]