"Litice Castle (German: Lititz, English: Lititz ) is a castle 7 kilometres west of Žamberk in the Ústí nad Orlicí District, in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic.
The steep slopes of the foothills of the Orlické hory (Eagle Mountains) gave the advantage of a strategic position to the gothic castles being founded there at the close of the 13th century. The high headland around which flowed the Divoká Orlice River was the site chosen just before the year 1300 by the Drslavic family to build up a castle which they named after their original family settlement in the Plzeň area."
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