Letohrádek Bellarie

This guide to Letohrádek Bellarie, the garden pavilion above Český Krumlov's castle, opens with a question: how did Josef Adam get his supper to arrive in the 1740s with no servant ever in the room? It follows the octagonal pavilion's path from an Eggenberg-era build in the 1690s to its rococo rebuild for the Schwarzenbergs, and the engineers working under architect Andreas Altomonte who were tasked with pulling off the illusion. Stand in the dining hall and look for the hatch in the floor.