Valdice (before 1950 Kartouzy-Valdice) is a municipality and village in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,400 inhabitants. Valdice was named after the nearby deer park (from German Wald, meaning "forest"). It was also called Kartouzy after the local monastery. Valdice is located about 2 km (1 mi) northeast of Jičín and 41 km (25 mi) northwest of Hradec Králové. It lies in the Jičín Uplands. The village of Valdice was founded together with a Carthusian monastery by Albrecht von Wallenstein in 1627. About 20 houses were built for craftsmen working for the monks in the monastery. In 1782, the monastery was abolished by Joseph II. The prison in the premises of the former monastery was established in 1857 by Austrian Empire. More information...
According to PR-model, valdice.cz is ranked 1,564,163rd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 982,245th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before schoolswimten.ru and after fnnstaff.org in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
