Lešany Chateau is located in the middle of nature, in Posázaví, about 20 km from Prague in the Benešov district. In the castle grounds there is a guesthouse, a chapel, a restaurant (pizzeria), a park with a pond, a terrace and a covered terrace with a garden grill, a castle garden with a wedding gazebo.
When the original water fortress, now a chateau, was built in Lešany cannot be clearly determined; it was probably in the pre-Hussite period by Renvald of Ústupenice, who sold it together with the village to Prokop of Soběšín in 1409. The fortress was a simple, slightly trapezoidal building, which is preserved in the masonry of the eastern wing of today's castle. The palace was probably in three parts, perhaps even slightly longer than the present-day castle wing. A small courtyard was adjacent to the palace from the west, and a water fortification probably related to the present-day Návesník pond from the east. The western palace, preserved in the masonry of the western wing of the castle, was built at the latest during the reign of the Čejk family of Olbramovice (ca. mid-16th century). In the middle of one of the free sides there was an entrance tower, the successor of which is the present tower. Soon after 1683 the castle acquired its present four-winged form. The facades bear traces of interventions in the late Baroque and Classical periods, when the austere arcades around the courtyard were also created. The most significant contribution of the St. Vitus Chapter to the appearance of the chateau is the Chapel of St. Vitus, which occupies the entire western half of the northern wing. In 1903, the castle was badly damaged by fire, the tower in the northern facade suffered the most, which was repaired and given a neo-Romantic terrace instead of a roof. The unsightly terrace was replaced by an even more unsightly water tower during World War II. In 1949, the Lešany Chateau was nationalized and was used by the United Agricultural Cooperative. During the socialist era, the castle and its outbuildings were significantly devastated. In December 1996 it was bought from the municipality by Mr Ladislav Truhlář, who gradually reconstructed the chateau and its grounds.
Since September 2013, we offer year-round tours of the newly reconstructed chateau building, chapel and room with restored frescoes from 1758 by Jan Václav Spitzer.