Rožmberk Castle
Gothic-Renaissance castle on a rock spur nearly encircled by a tight river bend.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rožmberk Castle near Český Krumlov starts with the Vltava River itself, which spent thousands of years carving a tight horseshoe bend into a ridge of granite before anyone built here. It follows the Vítek family nobleman thought to have raised the first fortress on this rock in the twelve hundreds, first mentioned in writing in twelve fifty-three, and how his builders only had to wall off the one narrow strip the river left open. Jakobínka, the squat, thick-walled tower still standing near the walls, is one of the few pieces of that original stronghold to survive centuries of fire and rebuilding.
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