National Stud at Kladruby nad Labem

The National Stud at Kladruby nad Labem (Národní hřebčín Kladruby nad Labem) is one of the oldest stud farms in the world and the home of the oldest original Czech horse breed, the Old Kladruber horse. Its grounds include the Kladruby Polabí landscape heritage zone, which has been the home of the Old Kladruber horse for half a millennium. The stud offers guided tour circuits, a visitor season, events, tickets, a virtual tour, and contacts. It also operates the Slatiňany Stud (Hřebčín Slatiňany), where performance tests for Old Kladruber mares are held. Its museum displays carriages including the private carriage of Emperor Ferdinand V and the state carriage of T. G. Masaryk, along with a model of an imperial eight-horse hitch, and the chateau presents rooms styled after Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth (Sisi).

The National Stud at Kladruby nad Labem is one of the oldest stud farms in the world and the home of the oldest original Czech horse breed, the Old Kladruber horse. The Kladruby Polabí landscape heritage zone has been the home of the Old Kladruber horse for half a millennium. The stud's museum presents more than five hundred years of horse breeding history in Kladruby. The chateau at the site presents rooms styled after Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth, known as Sisi, and includes a church they had built.

One of the oldest stud farms in the world and home of the oldest original Czech horse breed.

• Old Kladruber horse breeding

  The stud is the home of the oldest original Czech horse breed, the Old Kladruber horse.

• Guided tour circuits

  The stud offers guided tour circuits, visitor season, events, tickets, and a virtual tour.

• Museum with historic carriages

  The museum displays the private carriage of Emperor Ferdinand V, the state carriage of T. G. Masaryk, and other valuable carriages and sleighs, as well as a model of an imperial eight-horse hitch.

• Chateau tours

  The chateau presents twelve stylistically furnished halls and rooms in the era of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth (Sisi), and includes a church they had built.

1. 1Národní hřebčín Kladruby nad Labem, s.p.o.nhkladruby.cz