Czechia – Central, South, West (Prague, Karlovy Vary, Plzeň) September 26,28, 2019
After having a nap just before the border, I crossed into Czechia around noon.There was a noticeable change from Austria – narrow roads, patched pavement, no centre line, more decrepit homes. The drive to Cesky Krumlov and Holašovice was through rural farm and forest on a windy, slow road.
ČESKÝ KRUMLOV
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov. A World Heritage Site (1992), it sits on the banks of the Vitava River and was built around a 13th century castle. It is a great example of a small central European medieval town whose architectural heritage remained intact thanks to its peaceful evolution over more than 5 centuries. It is untouched by 19th century industrialization, neglect during the communist era and thoughtless development. Restoration works on the facades are strictly controlled heritage conservation efforts.
A feudal town, the former center of a large estate owned by powerful noble families, it underwent Baroque and Renaissance transformations with buildings having unique roof shapes, facades, vaulted spaces (carved Renaissance ceilings) and original layouts and interiors. The river meander and the rocky slopes of the castle hill are the most important elements. The castle is dominated by a round tower, Baroque residence, garden, summer pavilion, winter riding school, 40 buildings and 1766 Cesky Krumlov Baroque theatre (original building, auditorium, orchestra pit, stage technology, machinery, stage curtains).
Church of St Vitus. The present parish church dates to 1407-38 and had a neo-Gothic reconstruction in the 19th century replacing the tower.
Holašovice Historical Village Reservation (pop 140)
A World Heritage Site (1998), this is a small historical town that was deserted after WW II allowing its medieval plan and vernacular building in the South Bohemian Folk or Rural Baroque style to remain intact. It was lavishly restored and repopulated in 1990.
First mention of the town was in 1263 when it was given to the Cistercian Monastery of Vyšší Brod who owned it until 1848. Between 1520-25, only two of its inhabitants survived the bubonic plague. The monastery repopulated it with settlers from Bavaria and Austria. The population in 1530 was 17 and a German speaking enclave. By 1900, 163 were of German ethnic origin and 1 of Czech.
After the displacement of German residents at the end of WW II, many farms and villages were deserted and fell into disrepair.
Today it consists of 23 brick farmyards with 120 buildings, each with the gable end facing a central broad village green, with a fish pond and the 1755 chapel of St John of Nepomuk (very small at 4X8m, with a wood carving and small altar. The buildings date from the 18th – 20th century with most built in the second half of the 19th.
The houses are 2-story plaster, mostly white with orange tiles roofs. All have painted trim around the windows, doors, house numbers, the date (most 1850s-60s), the corner stones, gables and across the line of the two floors. Some have painted crests. Most have flower beds or pots on the window sills. They are very cute. Doors are dark brown wood, walks are flat stone between the lawn, and almost all have an antique unusual water pump in the front yard – basically a log supporting the pump handle operated by a dangling piece of wood and a spout that ends in a small stone trough.
ČESKÉ BUDEJOVICE
The large main square has nice pastel painted buildings and are all arcaded.
St. Nicholas Cathedral. A fairly small, RC, 3-nave church, the rib vaults and arches are painted with white gold and orange outlines. There are 2 elaborate Baroque altars at the front of each aisle. The lovely Ways of the Cross are oil paintings.
PÍSEK
Stone Bridge. This is a lovely totally stone pedestrian bridge. It is wide and must have accommodated vehicles at one time. There are 5 piers oddly protected by log bulwarks (for ice dams?). 4 sets of religious statues adorn the side walls. 
PRAGUE
The capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated on the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 2.6 million. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.
Prague is a political, cultural and economic centre of central Europe complete with a rich history. Founded during the Romanesque and flourishing by the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque eras, Prague was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the main residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably of Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg Monarchy and its Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and Protestant Reformation, the Thirty Years’ War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era.
Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the violence and destruction of 20th-century Europe. Main attractions include Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, Old Town Square with the Prague astronomical clock, the Jewish Quarter, Petřín hill and Vyšehrad. Since 1992, the extensive historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
The city has more than ten major museums, along with numerous theatres, galleries, cinemas and other historical exhibits. An extensive modern public transportation system connects the city. It is home to a wide range of public and private schools, including Charles University in Prague, the oldest university in Central Europe.
Prague is classified as an “Alpha −” global city and ranked sixth in the Tripadvisor world list of best destinations in 2016. In 2019, the city was ranked as 69th most liveable city in the world. Its rich history makes it a popular tourist destination and as of 2017, the city receives more than 8.5 million international visitors annually. Prague is the fourth most visited European city after London, Paris and Rome.
Zbraslav Monastery. Zbraslav. About 15kms south of Prague, this Cistercian Abbey of Zbraslav was one of the most significant monasteries of the Cistercian Order in the Kingdom of Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic). Founded by King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia in 1292 it became the royal necropolis of the last members of the Přemyslid dynasty. The abbey was abolished by the Bohemian King and Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II in 1789. The best-known abbot of this monastery was Peter of Zittau († 1339) who wrote the Zbraslav Chronicle (Latin: Chronicon Aulae Regiae), the most important historical source for the history of Bohemia in the first half of the 14th century. The Zbraslav abbey is also known for the Madonna of Zbraslav, an outstanding Gothic painting from the 1340s.
Charles University Botanical Garden. There is a large mass of connected greenhouses, rock gardens and large trees ascending the hill side.
Emmaus Monastery. Called Na Slovanech in the Middle Ages, is an abbey established in 1347 in Prague. It was the only Benedictine monastery of the Bohemian kingdom and all Slavic Europe. In the 1360s, the Cloisters of the Monastery were decorated with a cycle of 85 Gothic wall paintings with parallels from the Old and New Testaments. The Gothic cloisters also feature original faded frescoes with bits of Pagan symbolism from the 14th century. The monastery was baroquised in the 17th–18th centuries and the two temple towers were added.
Charles IV gave to the just-founded monastery the manuscript Reims Gospel, it was probably lost from Prague in the time of the Hussite Wars, the manuscript later became part of the Reims Cathedral treasury. The monastery became a center of culture and art, students of Cyril and Methodius studied there in addition to Jan Hus.
During the Second World War the monastery was seized by the Gestapo and the monks were sent to Dachau concentration camp. The monastery building and vaults were destroyed by a U.S. bombing raid on Prague on 14 February 1945. The modern roof with steeples was added in the 1960s. Returned to the Benedictine order in 1990, the monastery is administered by three monks, two of whom live there.
Note that it closes at 5pm. 60
Dancing House (Nationale-Nederlanden – a Dutch bank). In the Modern Architecture Buildings, it was completed in 1996 (one of the architects was Frank Gehry). It has two main parts – a 9-story glass tower that narrows at its waist and supported by curved pillars, the other has a round corner with a viewing deck on top with a large twisted structure nicknamed Mary, and then runs parallel to the river and has undulating mouldings and unaligned windows made of 99 concrete panels each a different shape and dimension.
The inside is assymetric. Commercial spaces are on the first two floors then 6 floors of offices, the ninth is a restaurant. In 2015, a 21-room hotel was added, an art gallery and the restaurant is now on the 7th floor.
Old Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Prague, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe and one of the most important Jewish historical monuments in Prague. It served its purpose from the first half of 15th century till 1786. Renowned personalities of the local Jewish community were buried here; among them rabbi Jehuda Liva ben Becalel – Maharal (ca. 1526–1609), businessman Mordecai Meisel (1528–1601), historian David Gans (ca. 1541–1613) and rabbi David Oppenheim (1664–1736). Today the cemetery is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague. It is entered via the Pinkas Synagogue, all part of a museum complex.
Pinkas Synagogue is the second oldest surviving synagogue in Prague. Its origins are connected with the Horowitz family, a renowned Jewish family in Prague. Today, the synagogue is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague and commemorates about 78,000 Czech Jewish victims of the Shoah.
An archaeological excavation has showed that in 15th century in the area of present Pinkas Synagogue there were wells, a mikveh and inhabited houses. By 1492 in one of those houses there was a private oratory belonging to a distinguished Prague Jewish family of Horowitz. In 1535 one of the family members, Aharon Meshulam Horowitz, decided to replace the house by a synagogue for his family. In this building we can find components in Gothic and Renaissance styles – for example the reticulated vault is made in the late Gothic style but its ornaments have Renaissance features and the portal is pure Renaissance. Between 1607 and 1625 an annex in Renaissance style was added and so the synagogue was extended with a vestibule, a women’s section and a balcony.
The floor of the synagogue is below the ground level so it was repeatedly afflicted by floods and moisture. In the second half of 18th century it was necessary to restore aron-ha-kodesh and bimah damaged by flood and so they were changed to the Baroque style. About the same time (in 1793) successful businessman and communal leader Joachim von Popper donated the synagogue with a wrought-iron Rococo grille which adorns the bimah until now. The grille is decorated with an emblem of the Prague Jewish community – Magen David with a Middle-Age Jewish hat.
In 1860, a radical step was taken to solve the problem of floods – the floor level of the synagogue was raised by 1,5 m. The baroque bimah disappeared, the arrangement of the seats was modernized (seats surrounding the walls as in Old-New Synagogue were replaced by the church-like rows) and pseudo-Romanesque style dominated the space.
However, less than century later, during reconstruction in 1950–1954, the original floor-level as well as the appearance of the synagogue were restored. In following five years, the walls of the synagogue were covered with names of about 78 000 Bohemian and Moravian Jewish victims of Shoah. The names are arranged by communities where the victims came from and complemented with their birth and death date. In 1960 it was opened to public, but it was closed after less than a decade, in 1968, after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. It was said that the reason for closing was moisture. After the fall of communistic regime in 1989 the synagogue had been reconstructed for three years and then opened to public, but it took another three years to restore the inscriptions of the names on the walls that were damaged by moisture. Moreover, in 2002, an old enemy of the synagogue – flood – proved its power and the inscriptions had to be restored again.
On the first floor of the synagogue there is an exhibition of pictures drawn by children in the concentration camp in Theresienstadt. Children did not draw them accidentally but during drawing lessons led by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944), a painter, who studied at Bauhaus, Weimar. She encouraged children to express themselves in drawing, to grapple with their grim experiences from the ghetto, as well as to capture their memories from home and dreams about the future. Their pictures therefore offer wide-ranged testimony about the daily reality of the ghetto and about individual children. Most of the children, as well as Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, died in Auschwitz. The only witnesses of their lives, their drawings, “survived” because Dicker-Brandeis hid them in Theresienstadt before her deportation to Auschwitz. After the war about 4,500 pictures were handed over to the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Beside activities of the Museum, Pinkas Synagogue serves also the religious community.
Franz Kafka Statue. The city’s most famous native writer, he lived most of his life in the Jewish quarter where the statue is. The statue is a headless man with a small Kafka riding on his shoulders.
Spanish Synagogue. Completed in 1868 in Moorish Revival style (inspired by the Arabic period of Spanish history), it was completely restored in 1958-9, closed in 1970 and reopened in 1998. It is a 2-story square, with a domed main. It has a museum of modern Jewish history in the Czech lands.
Church of Our Lady before Týn. Built between the 14th to the 16th centuries in late-gothic style, it has been the main church in this part of the city since first construction. The towers are 89m high and topped by four small towers with an additional four turrets. It is very unusual in that the façade is a series of restaurants and the main north portal is accessed by a corridor between them. 
Jan Hus Memorial. Jan Hus (1369-1415 – burned at the stake) was a religious thinker philosopher and reformer, a key predecessor to the Protestant movement of the 16th century. He believed mass should be in the vernacular not Latin, that the church should not be controlled by the Vaiican, and was ultimately condemned. His death led to the Hussite Wars.
It is a huge memorial in the main square – depicts the victorious Hussite warriors and Protestants forced into exile 200 years after Hus in the Thirty Years War. 
St. Nicholas Church. Built from 1704-55, it is the greatest example of Prague Baroque style. RC, it has a massive dome 79m-high on the outside and 20m diameter, spires 79m high. Count Wenceslaus donated his entire wealth of 178,500 gold, for the construction. Besides flamboyant Baroque design, there are nice frescoes and sculptures.
The following are in the new NM series “Hospitality Legends”.
Art Nouveau Palace Hotel. A 6-story green building with an nice lobby (chandeliers, bookshelves and sofas).
Grand Hotel Bohemia. A 7-story hotel on a corner producing a round façade.
Hotel Paris. A grand 6-story, 5-star hotel building with a swank restaurant.
U Fleku Pub and Brewery. A 2-story restaurant and brewery museum.
Man Hanging out Sculpture. In the NM “Bizzarium” series, this statue dangles above one of the cobblestone streets in Prague’s Old Town. It is simply a fake Sigmund Freud. First created in 1996, the work known as “Zavěšený muž” (“Man Hanging Out”) is the vision of Czech sculptor David Černý, whose work can actually be found all across Prague. Many of Cerny’s works are seen as somewhat deliberately provocative, and this one is no different. The dangling Freud is surprisingly lifelike at a distance, and a number of people have sincerely taken it for a person in danger. However, it is simply a sculptural statement about intellectualism in the 20th century and Černý’s uncertainty about it.
The piece, even if it was somewhat controversial, was still quite popular after its unveiling and was able to tour the world, being displayed in places ranging from London to Grand Rapids, Michigan. However, the piece is back in Prague, hanging extended over a tight, historic street, causing passersby to look away from the ancient surrounds and take a look up to ponder the future. With luck, Freud won’t be coming down anytime soon, and neither will 20th-century intellectualism.
It hangs from a bar extending from the top of the 3-story roof and is easy to miss.
Charles Bridge is a historic bridge that crosses the Vltava river in Prague. Its construction started in 1357 under the auspices of King Charles IV, and finished in the beginning of the 15th century. The bridge replaced the old Judith Bridge built 1158–1172 that had been badly damaged by a flood in 1342. This new bridge was originally called Stone Bridge or Prague Bridge but has been “Charles Bridge” since 1870. As the only means of crossing the river Vltava (Moldau) until 1841, Charles Bridge was the most important connection between Prague Castle and the city’s Old Town and adjacent areas. This “solid-land” connection made Prague important as a trade route between Eastern and Western Europe.
The bridge is 516 metres (1,693 ft) long and nearly 10 metres (33 ft) wide, following the example of the Stone Bridge in Regensburg, it was built as a bow bridge with 16 arches shielded by ice guards. It is protected by three bridge towers, two on the Lesser Quarter side (including the Malá Strana Bridge Tower) and one on the Old Town side, the Old Town Bridge Tower. The bridge is decorated by a continuous alley of 30 statues and statuaries, most of them baroque-style, originally erected around 1700 but now all replaced by replicas.
Žižkov Television Tower. Built from 1985-92, it is 216m to the top of the antennae. The construction is unusual – based on a triangle, the column corners are 3 tubes of double walled steel filled with concrete that support nine pods and three decks for transmitting equipment. One column is considerably higher and it supports the antennae. The observatory is at 96m, the one-room hotel at 70m and restaurants at 66m. 10 fibreglass sculptures are on the columns. It is illuminated in the colours of the Czech tricolor. 
Memorial to the Victims of Communism. This stark memorial consists of a series of inclined steps with 6 rough, nude, bronze men – only the bottom one is intact, the rest have parts missing (shoulder and half his head, ½ trunk and head, ½ trunk and all of head, most of the body above the waist) or gaping slashes on their bodies. A bronze plaque at the bottom lists the atrocities and is repeated in a narrow bronze band up the middle of the steps. In Czech: Obcanu Emigrovalo 205,486, Popraveno 4500, Zemrelov Ve Veznicich 327, Hynulo Na Hranicich 170,938. It sits at the bottom of a hillside park.
Petrín Lookout Tower. Built as part of the Jubilee Exhibition of 1891, it is 63.5m high with 299 steps to the top (the same height of the viewing platform of the Eiffel Tower which inspired it). It is an octagonal steel girder construction. There is a lift in the tower and a funicular at the bottom of Petrin hill. A prominent landmark of Prague, it overlooks the city and on a clear day allows views of most of Bohemia. CZK 150, 80 reduced
Strahov Monastery. This large monastery complex has several attractions: Church (only open for mass ast 6pm), Strahov Library (a fantastic Baroque masterpiece 120), Strahof Gallery (art museum 120), Brewery and restaurant.
St. Vitus Cathedral. The RC cathedral of Prague, it was founded in 930 and the Gothic cathedral started in 1344, but the church was not completely finished until 1929. It is the most important church in the country and the largest – 124m long and 60m wide, tower 102.8m tall. It contains the tombs of many Bohemian kings and Holy Roman Emperors. One nice feature is the tracery in the windows – no two are alike. The chapel of St Wenceslas has the relics of the saint with the walls decorated with 1300 semi-precious stones. The Czech Crown Jewels accessed from the corner of the chapel are displayed once every 8 years.
The Gulliver Airship. Part of the contemporary art museum, this is a large construction of a zeppelin hanging over the building made of wood slats covered with a plastic canopy.
KUTNÁ HORA (pop 21,000)
The town began in 1142 with the Sedlec Monastery, the first Cistercian monastery in Bohemia. Although silver was first discovered here in the 10th century, starting in 1260, German miners were mining silver in the nearby mountains producing an economic boom. From the 13th to the 16th centuries, it competed with Prague economically, culturally and politically. In 1546, the richest mine flooded, and along with repeated visits by the plague and the 30 Years War, its ruin was completed. Impoverished, a fire burned it down in 1770. The mines were abandoned at the end of the 18th century.
HISTORICAL TOWN CENTER with the CHURCH OF ST BARBARA AND THE CATHEDRAL of OUR LADY at SEDLEC
A World Heritage Site (1995), a combined ticket for the two churches and ossuary is 220, 155 reduced
Historical Town Centre. Besides the two churches, the notable buildings are: Italian Court (formerly a royal residence and mint, built at the end of the 13th century), Gothic Stone Haus (now the museum with a very rich archive), Gothic St James Church (86m tower), Church of St John Nepomuk, Church of Ursuline Convent, Jesuit College, Marian column.
Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec. Built in 1320, it was a milestone of Gothic architecture, the largest building in the Czech region at the time. It was totally renovated in 1700-02. Originally 3-nave, the wide original aisles were divided with another row of columns to make it 5-nave. It was the first to have a ring of choral chapels in the apse.
There are several wonderful features: 4 Baroque confessionals with intricate inlays and topped by many wood sculptures, intricately carved sides and backs of the pews, the side chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary of Sedlec on the right is heavy Baroque, the intricate pattern of the rib vaulting, painted ceilings over the crossing, the reliquary of St Vincent, an early Roman martyr. An unusual feature is access to the right side attic with a walkway under the roof and over the domes of the aisles through the heavy wood timbers. 120, 90 reduced
Sedlec Ossuary. In the NM “The Dark Side” series, this is in the basement of the small Gothic Cistercian church of Holy Saints (the church of the Sedlec Abbey) surrounded by the Sedlec cemetery. With an estimated skeletons of 40-70,000 persons, have become decorative displays: a chandelier containing at least one of every bone in the human body, a row of skulls with dangling humerus’ along the entrance balcony, skulls sitting on pelvis’ along the top of the walls, decorative plaques of skulls and femurs, a fantastic coat of arms and the signature of Frantisek Rint. This was good but not quite as spectacular as the Capuchin church in Rome. 90, 60 reduction. Note that tickets are sold at the information office near the cathedral about 250m from the ossuary.
Church of St. Barbara. Started in 1388, construction was halted several times and it was not completed until 1905. As the town’s silver mines depleted, construction was scaled back. The lovely three-peaked roof was finished in 1588 and later it became more Baroque (pulpit. The interior highlights are, gilt three-part retable with the Last Supper as the main altar, the accessible high balconies and the stained glass windows on the right side aisle and circular choral at the front, some of the best I have ever seen. Medieval frescoes are on the walls. The ceiling has crests as the rosettes and paintings on the ceiling.
The exterior is really outstanding with double-arched flying buttresses supported by flamboyant gothic towers covered in statues. Grotesques are in the corner of most of the eaves. The 3-peaked roof is also very unusual.
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora. A WHS (1994), in 1719 the RC Church declared the tongue of John of Nepomuk to be incorruptible and work started of this church where the future saint received his education and was consecrated immediately after his beautification in 1720 but it wasn’t finished until 1727. The church has gothic features and complex symbolism applying mathematical ratios in the architecture with the number 5 dominant in the layout and proportions (a 5-starred crown appeared above his body when he was cruelly tortured for having disputes with King Vaclav IV and thrown into the river and drowned). Minimalistic in design, the perimeter has 5 triangular chapels and 5 oval chapels, 5 doors and 4 altars of the evangelists. The altars are in poor shape (the whole church seems to be under renovation with scaffolding and plastic hanging everywhere).
The vault with lunettes is supported by 10 pillars. The 2nd floor gallery has ten paintings. There is a 3rd floor gallery. Stucco decoration is limited to the intersecting rib arches. The central area is lit indirectly but the side walkways are awash with light that enters the central area by ogive arches. The main altar has the saint standing on a globe decorated with 8-pointed stars and supported by 3 angels. The top of the cupola has a large tongue surrounded by gold rays. The church is surrounded by a 10-sided arcaded wall. €2
Note that the church opens at 11am. When I was there I was the only one inside.
TELČ (pop 5276)
It was first mentioned in 1315 as a royal water fort on the crossroads of busy merchant routes between Moravia, Bohemia and Austria.
Historic Centre of Telč. It was listed as a WHS in 1992.
Telč Chateau. The Gothic castle was built in the 2nd half of the 14th century and strengthened in the next two centuries. The nobleman Zacharias of Hradec had it altered in Renaissance style in the 1550s. The ground floor was vaulted, façade decorated with sgraffito and apartments received stucco ornamentation. The Jesuits built the Church in the Name of Jesus in 1666-7.
Town Square. Beside the monumental chateau, the most significant site is the town square, a long urban plaza with well conserved Renaissance and Baroque houses with high gables and arcades. They are all painted lovely two-tone pastels.
Column of the Virgin.
Fountains in the middle of the square date from the 18th century.
TŘEBIČ
Třebíč Windmill. This windmill has seen better days. Round and of plaster covered brick construction, it has a shingled black top. The plaster is crumbling off and the vanes are missing. I looked through one of the iron barred windows and it is empty inside. There are no signs and looks like it is never visited.
JEWISH QUARTER and ST PROCOPIUS’ BASILICA in TŔEBIĆ
The Jewish Quarter is one of the best preserved Jewish ghettos in Europe. It was WHS listed in 2003, the only Jewish monument outside of Israel on the list. On the north bank of the Jihlava River, it is surrounded by rocks and the river. There are 123 houses, two synagogues and a Jewish cemetery (not actually in the town). In 1890, there were nearly 1,500 Jews but in the 1930s only 300 were left and were deported in murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Now most buildings do not serve their original purpose and a owned by non-Jews.
St Procopius’ Basilica. Built on the original site of the 1104 Benedictine monastery chapel in 1240-80 and is preserved in its original style today. In 1704, on the quincentenary of Saint Procopius canonization, it was named after him.
The exterior and interior are rustic rough stone – walls, columns and ribs of the vaulted ceiling. It has 3-naves with clear glass/light yellow stained glass window in the aisles and high up in the central nave. Statues of bishops are on top of the columns, 3/side. The big crypt has 14 small and 4 large columns and includes some archaeology. A side chapel on the left side of the chancel has some faded frescoes and painted ribs. The simple choir only has some stools to sit on. The highlights are the bronze bas-relief Ways of the Cross and the altar, a lovely 3-part retable. Free
NOMAD MANIA Czechia – Central, South, West (Prague, Karlovy Vary, Plzeň)World Heritage Sites
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov
Historic Centre of Prague
Historic Centre of Telč
Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
Jewish Quarter and St Procopius’ Basilica in Třebíč.
Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec
Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora
Tentative WHS
Extension of the World Heritage Site “Historic Centre of Prague” with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (06/07/2001)
Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (19/01/2001)
Great Spas of Europe (17/06/2014)
Paysage culturel minier des Monts Métallifères (Erzgebirge) (24/02/2012)
Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (19/01/2001)
The Karlstejn Castle (06/07/2001)
The West Bohemian Spa Triangle (25/06/2008)
Sights (Temporarily Reinstated)
Hluboka nad Vltavou Castle
Konopiště Chateau, Prague
National Monument, Prague
Pilsner Urquell Brewery, Plzen
Prague Jewish Museum and Heritage
Prague Municipal House (Obecní dům)
Strahov Monastery
Veletržní Palác (National Gallery), Prague
Wallenstein Garden
Islands: Štvanice
Borders
Austria-Czechia
Czechia-Germany
XL
Gmünd/České Velenice
Western Czech extreme west (Aš)
Railway, Metro, Funiculars, Cable Cars
Czech Republic Intercity Railway Experience
Jindřichohradec narrow-gauge trains
Super City Pendolino services (Prague-Ostrava)
Museums: Znojmo: South Moravian Museum
Castles, Palaces, Forts
Brandýs nad Labem: Brandýs nad Labem Chateau
Červená Lhota: Červená Lhota Castle
Český Šternberk: Český Šternberk Castle
Dobříš: Chateau Dobříš
Hluboká nad Vltavou: Castle Hluboká nad Vltavou
Hořovice: Hořovice Chateau
Kamenice nad Lipou: Kamenice nad Lipou Chateau
Karlštejn: Karlštejn Castle
Křivoklát: Křivoklát Castle
Lány: Lány Chateau
Loket: Loket Château
Loučeň: Chateau Loučeň
Mníšek Pod Brdy: Mníšek Pod Brdy Chateau
Nedvědice: Pernštejn Castle
Pardubice: Pardubice Castle
Průhonice: Průhonice Chateau
Rybnik: Rožmberk Castle
Štiřín: Štiřín Chateau
Veltrusy: Veltrusy Chateau
Zbiroh: Zbiroh Château
Religious Temples
Sázava: Sázava Monastery
Tepla: Tepla Abbey
Zbraslav: Zbraslav Monastery
World of Nature
Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area
National park Podyjí
Šumava National Park
Entertainment/Things to do: Grevin Wax Museum
Theme Parks: Čestlice: Aquapalace Prague
Caves: Koněprusy Caves
Ski Resorts: Lipno nad Vitavou
Markets: Buštěhrad: Collectors’ market
Open-Air Museums
Brandys nad Labem: Medieval Open Air Museum Řepora
Kouřim: Museum of Folk Architecture in Kouřim
Přerov nad Labem: Polabské muzeum
Railway Museums: Lužná: Czech Railway Museum
Vehicle Museums
Lany: Sports Car Museum
Mlada Boleslav: Škoda Auto Museum
The Dark Side: Lidice
Festivals
Febiofest – Prague International Film Festival
Five-Petaled Rose Celebration
International Music Festival Český Krumlov
Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Mighty Sounds
Prague Folklore Days
Prague International Organ Festival
Prague Spring Music Festival
Prague Writers’ Festival
Sázavafest
The Festival of Freedom in Pilsen
European Cities
ČESKÉ BUDEJOVICE
Museums: Museum of South Bohemia
Religious Temples: St. Nicholas Cathedral
Planetariums: Hvezdarna a planetarium
JIHLAVA
Museums: Museum of Highlands
House Museums/Plantations: House of Gustav Mahler
Zoos: Jihlava Zoo
KARLOVY VARY World Cities and Popular Towns
Railway, Metro, Funiculars, Cable Cars: Karlovy Vary Diana Observation Tower Funicular
Museums
Jan Becher Museum
Karlovy Vary Museum
Moser Museum of Glass
Monuments: Karlovy Vary: Karl Marx Statue
Hospitality Legends
Grandhotel Pupp
Hotel Imperial
PLZEŇ
Sights (Temporarily Reinstated) Pilsner Urquell Brewery, Plzen
Railway, Metro, Funiculars, Cable Cars: Plžen Trams
Museums
Brewery Museum
Puppet Museum
West Bohemian Museum
Religious Temples: Plzeň: St. Bartholomew´s Cathedral
Entertainment/Things to do
Historic Underground of Plzen
New Theatre
Zoos: Plzeň Zoo
PRAGUE World Capitals, World Cities and Popular Towns
World Heritage Sites: Historic Centre of Prague
Airports: Prague (PRG)
Railway, Metro, Funiculars, Cable Cars
Prague Metro
Prague Trams
Petřín funicular
Museums
Apple Museum
Bedřich Smetana Museum
Beer Museum
City of Prague Museum
Coffee Museum Prague
Czech Poster Museum
Franz Kafka Museum
House of the Black Madonna (Cubism Museum)
Karel Zeman Museum
Mucha Museum
Museum Kampa
Museum of Alchemy
Museum of Decorative Arts
Museum of Miniatures
Museum of Public Transport
Museum of Senses
Muzeum Českého Granátu Praha
NaFilM: Národní filmové muzeum
Naprstek Museum
National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror
National Museum
National Museum of Agriculture
National Technical Museum
Prague Central Gallery
Prague Jewish Museum
Prague National Gallery
Prague Wax museum
Speculum Alchemiae
House Museums/Plantations
Antonín Dvořák Museum
Villa Müller
Castles, Palaces, Forts
Prague Castle
Archbishop’s Palace
Czernin Palace
Kinsky Palace (national gallery)
Kolowrat Palace
Konopiště Chateau
Lobkowicz Palace
Martinic Palace
Old Royal Palace
Schönborn Palace
Schwarzenberg Palace
Thun Palace
Troja Palace
Tuscan Palace (Toskansky Palace)
Veletrzni Palace (National Gallery)
Religious Temples
Břevnov Monastery
Church of Our Lady before Týn
Emmaus Monastery
Spanish Synagogue
St. Nicholas Church
St. Vitus Cathedral
Strahov Monastery
Modern Architecture Buildings
Dancing House
Golf Club Hostivar building
Petrín Lookout Tower
The Gulliver Airship
Žižkov Television Tower
Entertainment/Things to do
MeetFactory
Palác Akropolis
Hospitality Legends
Art Nouveau Palace Hotel
Grand Hotel Bohemia
Hotel Paris
U Fleku Pub and Brewery
Zoos: Prague Zoo
Botanical Gardens
Charles University Botanical Garden
Prague Botanic Garden
Aquariums: Sea World
Planetariums: Planetarium Praha
Malls Department Stores: Centrum Chodov
Markets
Jiřák Farmer’s Market
U Elektry flea market (Saturday)
Monuments
Franz Kafka Statue
Jan Hus Memorial
Memorial to the Victims of Communism
Pedestrian Bridges: Charles Bridge
Aviation Museums: Prague Aviation Museum
Railway Museums: Railway Kingdom
The Dark Side
KGB Museum
Museum of Communism
Old Jewish Cemetery
Bizzarium
Man Hanging out Sculpture
Sex Machines Museum
Villages and Small Towns
Františkovy Lázně
Havlíčkův Brod
Jindřichův Hradec
Kolín
Loket
Mělník
Prachatice
Příbram
Třeboň
ČESKÝ KRUMLOV World Cities and Popular Towns
World Heritage Sites: Historic Centre of Český Krumlov
Museums
Egon Schiele Art Centrum
Muzeum obchodu Cesky Krumlov
Muzeum vltavinu
Regional Museum in Cesky Krumlov
House Museums/Plantations: Museum Fotoatelier Seidel
Castles, Palaces, Forts: Český Krumlov Castle
CHEB
Museums: Cheb: Retromuseum
MARIÁNSKÉ LÁZNĚ
Museums: Marianske Lazne: Mestske Muzeum Marianske Lazne
House Museums/Plantations: Marianske Lazne: Fryderyk Chopin Museum
PÍSEK
Museums: Pisek: Prachenske Museum
Pedestrian Bridges: Písek: Stone Bridge
TÁBOR
Museums: Tabor: The Hussite Museum
TELČ
World Heritage Sites: Historic Centre of Telč
Castles, Palaces, Forts: Telč: Telč Chateau
TŘEBIČ
World Heritage Sites: Jewish Quarter and St Procopius’ Basilica in Třebíč
Museums: Třebíč: Vysočina Museum
Castles, Palaces, Forts: Třebíč: Třebíč Museum (Třebíč Castle)
Windmills: Třebíč: Třebíč Windmill
HOLAŠOVICE World Heritage Sites: ?Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
SLAVONICE Tentative WHS: Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (19/01/2001)
KUTNÁ HORA
World Heritage Sites: Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec
Museums: Kutná Hora: The Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region
Religious Temples: Kutna Hora: Church of St. Barbara
The Dark Side: Kutna Hora: Sedlec Ossuary
