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KRUMLOV - Historic center This town was built on a meandering bend in the River Vltava around the originally gothic castle from the 13th century. Despite the passage of time, the town together with the castle complex and chateau have retained its exemplary mediaeval Central European character with intact architectural wealth for more than five centuries. |
registered:
1992 reached by train or bus
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| PRAGUE (PRAHA) Historic centre Each part of the capital city of the Czech Republic: Mala Strana, Hradcany (Prague Castle), The Old and New Towns, were built from the 10th century onwards. As well as Prague Castle with its Cathedral of St. Vitus and Charles Bridge, a number of churches and palaces were also built here, and together they combine to create a magnificent architecturally, artistically and spiritually wealthy whole |
registered: 1992
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| TELC - Historic center The town was built on the foundations of an earlier settlement following a large fire at the end of the 14th century; its heyday was during the period of the Lords of Hradec. Its renaissance and baroque burghers' houses are surrounded by a protective system of ponds. The gothic castle was rebuilt in the renaissance style at the end of the 16th century. | registered: 1992 | |||
| KUTNA
HORA - Historical center, Saint Barbara Church, Cathedral of our Lady at Sedlec This important royal city developed from the 14th century as a result of the exploitation of silver mines. The late Gothic Saint Barbara Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec, rebuilt in line with the Baroque taste in the early 18th century, form just part of the medieval urban fabric with a striking wealth of burghers' houses. |
registered:
1995
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| ZDAR
NAD SAZAVOU - Pilgrimage Church of St. Jan Nepomuk on Zelena Hora (Green Hill) The pilgrimage Church, built in honour of St. John Nepomuk was built in the early 1720's. Ir is the finest example of the work of the architect Jan Blazej Santini-Aichl, and is the most original example of a style that lies between Baroque and Gothic. It is built in a five-pointed star-shaped design and is surrounded by a cemetery and walkway. |
registered: 1994 | |||
| LEDNICE,
VALTICE - Lednice-Valtice Area Between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Lichtenstein transformed their domains into one large park, where the Baroque and neo-Gothic architecture of the castles meet with the small outbuildings in the Romantic style and the countryside fashioned according to the English principles of landscaping. |
registered:
1996 reached by train or bus |
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| HOLASOVICE - Village reservation Holasovice is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional Central European village. A number of high-quality village buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries in a style known as the "South Bohemian Folk Baroque" preserve a ground plan dating from the middle ages. | registered: 1998 | |||
| KROMERIZ - Gardens and Castle The Castle, rebuilt following fires in the 17th century, represents an exceptionally well-preserved example of a Central European Baroque princely residence and the associated gardens: Castle garden with park, naturally landscaped, and a late Renaissance Flower garden. |
registered:
1998 reached by train or bus |
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| LITOMYSL - Castle and castle grounds The Renaissance castle, dating from the second half of the 16th century, is an important example of an arcade/castle, which was first developed in Italy. Despite alterations to the interior at the end of the 18th century, it has retained its almost intact Renaissance features including the unique sgrafittoed decorations on the facades and gables. It also retains a number of ancillary buildings and gardens. |
registered:
1999 reached by train or bus |
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![]() | OLOMOUC - Holy Trinity Column This memorial column, erected in the early years of the 18th century, is the most outstanding example of a type of monument that is very typical of central Europe. Rising to a height of 35 m, it is decorated in the characteristic regional style known as Olomouc Baroque with many fine religious sculptures, the work of the distinguished Moravian artist Ondrej Zahner. | registered: 2000 | ||
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