Lipno nad Vltavou
Lakeside resort rebuilt above a mid-century reservoir that submerged the original settlement.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lipno nad Vltavou near Cesky Krumlov starts with a question: what does a village sound like when it drowns? It traces old Lipno from its start as timber cutters' cottages on monastery land through a slow nineteenth-century decline, into the secretive 1950s dam project that jailed one of its own engineers for talking about it. You'll hear how the census numbers shifted years before the water ever rose. Stand at today's shoreline and you're above streets nobody living remembers walking.
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