Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
Cluster of brick farmsteads with flamboyant folk-Baroque gables, abandoned for decades then fully restored.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Holašovice, near Český Krumlov, opens with a plague in 1520 that left just two named-less locals to bury the rest of the village, and the Bavarian and Austrian settlers who filled the emptiness for the next three centuries. It follows the newly freed farmers of the 1820s who turned plain barns into brick showpieces with swirling stucco gables, then the postwar expulsion that emptied the houses again by 1946. You can still read each family's boast in the plasterwork on the facades in front of you.
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