📜 The Minizoo at Častolovice Castle is a unique petting farm designed to allow children and adults to interact closely with a variety of animals. It aims to provide a hands-on experience with both domestic and exotic species, many of which can be petted.
🔍 Inspired by 'petting farms' popular in Europe and the USA, it is continuously expanded and improved by the castle owner, Diana Sternberg.
☀️ Interact with animals like emu, llamas, ponies, donkeys, goats, sheep, and alpacas.
🏄♀️ See diverse parrots and pheasants in aviaries, and free-roaming pigeons, guinea fowl, and peacocks.
👨👩👧👦 Feed animals with special granules available for purchase at the entrance.
👨👩👧👦 Especially popular with children, offering a chance to pet guinea pigs and dwarf rabbits that roam freely.
✈️ Located within the beautiful Častolovice Renaissance Castle grounds, which also offers castle tours.
✈️ The castle park itself features a pond, a playground, and a 3 km circuit around deer enclosures.
🚫 Animals can only be fed with granules purchased at the minizoo entrance for health reasons.
🎟️ Entry fees apply for the minizoo, unlike the rest of the castle park.
🍽️ Refreshments like cakes, sweets, and savory pastries are available at an arbor near the pond in the castle park.
🤝 Managed by castle owner Diana Sternberg.
🤝 Supported by the 'Spolek na podporu Zámeckého zvěřince a parku' (Association for the Support of the Castle Menagerie and Park), founded in 2006.