Český Krumlov Castle Tower
Cylindrical Renaissance tower with a painted facade, open arcaded gallery, and four historic bells over a Gothic base.
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Cesky Krumlov Castle Tower's guide reads the tower as a scrapbook of three dynasties on one shaft of stone, from a Gothic base raised before 1250 to the Renaissance flourish Wilhelm von Rosenberg gave it. You'll hear how Italian architect Baldassare Maggi and court painter Bartolomej Beranek added the arcaded gallery and painted facade in the early 1580s, and how Wilhelm's line ended with the castle passing to the Eggenbergs and then the Schwarzenbergs. A bronze bell cast in 1406 still rings from the top.
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