Červená brána

This guide to the Red Gate in Český Krumlov begins with Wilhelm von Rosenberg's decision to fill the moat below with live bears, as proof of his family's claimed kinship with Italy's Orsini clan, whose name traces to the word for she-bear. It follows the bears through the centuries since the first documented four in 1707, and the decades they vanished and returned. You'll pass the deep dry ditch cut through rock on the walk from town into the castle.