Castle Hluboka rises from the Bohemian countryside in a vision of white turrets and ornate gables that look more like a fairy tale illustration than a real fortress. Originally built as a Gothic castle in the 13th century, it was completely rebuilt in the 19th century to resemble Windsor Castle in England. The Schwarzenberg family, […]
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Český Krumlov is one of the most beautiful small towns in Europe, a UNESCO World heritage jewel in southern Bohemia, encircled by a dramatic horseshoe bend of the Vltava River, whose perfectly preserved medieval and Renaissance centre is dominated by the sprawling, multi-coloured Krumlov Castle, the second-largest castle complex in the Czech Republic after Prague […]
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Loket Castle is one of the Czech Republic’s most dramatically situated medieval fortresses, a 12th-century Gothic castle perched on a granite rock surrounded on three sides by the Ohře River, in the charming little town of Loket near Karlovy Vary in western Bohemia. With its well-preserved medieval interiors, gruesome torture chamber exhibition, and a famous […]
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The Prague Zoo – the 7th best zoo in the world, Czech republic Updated: September 21, 2020 | By Claire | More Prague Zoo is a beautiful piece of nature located at the bottom part of the Prague, in Troja district. History of breeding of exotic animals in Prague is much older than it looks, […]
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Prague is a city of more than one hundred spires, nine historic districts, over 1,000 years of continuous urban development, and the sixth most visited city in Europe, receiving approximately 8 million tourists annually, a figure that has grown steadily since the fall of the Iron Curtain made this impossibly beautiful city accessible to the […]
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