Celtic Culture Information Centre in Nižbor castle (Czech Republic)
N 49° 59.980 E 013° 59.986
33U E 428316 N 5539073
The Celtic Culture Information Centre (In Czech: Informacní centrum ketské kultury), located in the newly reconstructed Nižbor Chateau, was opened in 2004 as part of the international project Celtic Europe...
Waymark Code: WM6DMH
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/18/2009
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The administrator of the centre is the Central Bohemian Region, which contributed to its establishment together with the Institute of Archaeological Monument Conservation of Central Bohemia and support of European Union.
Celtic Europe presents the cultural legacy of the Celts as the foundation for the first unification of Europe. The Celtic Culture Information Centre thus shows the life of the Celts in Central Bohemia by way of multimedia projections. Visitors can learn about the great migration of Celts across Europe associated with the settlement of individual locations and the construction of oppida, as well as Celtic religion and important feasts, ordinary daily life and work in the oppida. There are also aerial shots of former oppida exhibited. In the past one of these used to stand next to Nižbor chateau on the opposite hill called Hradište Stradonice.
The Centre isn’t part of the current mania for anything Celtic but a more scientific look at the life of the Boii tribe, bygone inhabitants of what is now the Czech Republic. The word Bohemia (Boiohemum), as the Czech lands are commonly known around the world, is derived from the name of this tribe.