Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:31:11 +0200Noble family celebrates victory as court returns castle to original ownershttps://english.radio.cz/noble-family-celebrates-victory-court-returns-castle-original-owners-8073860© 2026 Radio Prague International There was victory for one of the country's old aristocratic families this week, when a court in Hradec Kralove ended a 12-year legal row by ruling that a Renaissance-era castle belongs to the family of nobles that owned it for hundreds of years before World War II. Opocno Castle was first seized by the Nazis and then nationalised by the Communists after the war, but it's taken more than a decade for the former owners to wrench it back from the Czech state. Rob Cameron reports. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/opocno_1.jpg?timestamp=1590260977 Noble family celebrates victory as court returns castle to original owners https://english.radio.cz/noble-family-celebrates-victory-court-returns-castle-original-owners-8073860 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9