Photo: Jakub Čermák, Palacký University Olomouc
Kroměříž Chateau, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Zlín Region, dazzles the country with its architecture and gardens – and now also with hundreds of amethysts, centuries old and recently discovered by accident by a researcher from Palacký University.
Kroměříž Chateau, the former residence of archbishops of Olomouc, is already a jewel of Moravia, but it has acquired further brilliance through the discovery of a cache of amethysts, violet-coloured stones built into its Baroque artificial caves.
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Author: Danny Bate