Horní
Ridge-top thoroughfare of Renaissance and Gothic facades, named for standing above the river that nearly encircles the old town.
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This guide to Horni street in Cesky Krumlov follows one ridge the Vltava river was never allowed to reach, tracing its name through five centuries of political change, from Horni ulice around 1511 to German rule and even a decade named after a Styrian writer. It sets that history against the river below, whose recorded flood levels swing from a calm sixty-one centimeters to a violent four hundred thirty-two. A photograph of the 1993 flood still survives in the town's own archives.
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