Observation tower Kleť
Neo-Gothic stone lookout crowning a wooded summit, its original platform rebuilt after decades of decay.
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This guide to the observation tower on Klet above Cesky Krumlov opens with two official signs that can't agree on the chairlift's length, a small mismatch that turns out to suit the mountain. It follows the tower itself from its construction for Prince Josef Schwarzenberg between 1822 and 1825, through decades as a surveying point, to the day inspectors quietly declared the country's oldest stone lookout tower unsafe. For close to two centuries it simply stood watching the Sumava ridgeline.
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