Točník Castle is linked with the person of Vencel IV. The first report of Točník dates back to 1398. After the Renaissance modifications carried out by the lords of Vartenberk and the lords of Lobkowitz it was used until the period of the Thirty Years War. Only the former royal palace, whose representative hall was converted in the 18th century into a Barock Chapel of pilgrimage consecrated to St. Bartholomew, continued to be well maintained. Its last aristocratic owner Josef Colloredo-Mannsfeld presented the castle to the club of Czechoslovak Tourists in 1923 fir the symbolic sum of one Czechoslovak crown. Točník, whose development was violently interrupted by the Hussite revolution, continues to represent one of the best examples of Czech castles from the late 14th century. Točník Castle offers perceptive visitors exceptionally well-preserved Gothic architecture, a royal palace with its original interiors, a castle museum with archeological finds, a big palace with unique graffito decoration, large stables for horses, a so-called black kitchen, a forge, a rock prison, a tower with an observation terrace, bears in the castle ditch and other animals, a wooden outer bailey with dwellings and cow-sheds and many other original features of the real Middle Ages.