Located on the flood plain of the Elbe River in Kladruby nad Labem, Czech Republic, the property, its design and functional use serve the needs of breeding and training the Baroque draught horses of the Kladruber breed. These horses were used during the ceremonies of the Habsburg Imperial Court. The property is a rare example of the merging of two types of cultural landscape – living and organically developing landscape, and manmade landscape, intentionally designed using the principles of the French and English landscape architecture.
Up to 1918, the town was part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, district of Pardubitz (Pardubice), Bohemia. The stamp cancelled in 1903 shows the two official names: KLADRUB A.D. ELBE and KLADRUBY NAD LABEM since the end of the 19th century.
Kladruby nad Labem is renowned as home of the Kladruber horse breed. On 6 July 2019, the Landscape for Breeding and Training of Ceremonial Carriage Horses at Kladruby nad Labem was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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