Latrán
Cobbled lane of castle-servant houses once packed with taverns for dice, cards and beer past curfew.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Latrán in Český Krumlov follows the servants' lane running from the Barber's Bridge to the old town gate, first recorded in the 1370s as a settlement outside the castle walls with its own rules. It traces how off-duty castle staff spent their free hours here past curfew, playing cards and dice by candlelight while a fiddler played, and how sixteenth-century records complain of drinkers ignoring closing bells and Sunday bans. Roughly one house in eight along the town below the castle kept a tap running.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Historický pivovar Český Krumlov
Neo-Gothic brew house on the river, reviving a four-hundred-year local beer tradition since twenty fifteen.
Lazebnický most
Wooden pedestrian crossing named for a riverside bathhouse tied to a royal-era tragedy.
Plešivecké nám.
Renaissance-era craftsmen's square with a stone fountain, watering trough, and two seventeenth-century wayside shrines.
Parkán
Narrow medieval street of small houses wedged into an old defensive moat beside the river.
Vyšší Brod Monastery
Active Cistercian abbey with a medieval brewery history and a Baroque library of rare manuscripts.
Church of St. Vitus
Gothic hall church whose vanished guild altars once included one funded by the town's brewers.