Široká
Wide market street lined with Renaissance houses, once home to a court alchemist jailed for fraud.
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This guide to Široká Street in Český Krumlov centers on a locked room here in July 1592, where court alchemist Antonín Michael of Ebbersbach was planting gold ducats in bowls of soil for his patron, Wilhelm of Rosenberg, the richest lord in Bohemia. It follows the letter Michael sent that same month promising a drinkable gold that could cure any illness, and the patience of a dying lord running out. Look up at the carved stone portal of number seventy-seven, the house Michael bought in 1588 with his patron's money.
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