State Castle & Chateau Český Krumlov
Vast Renaissance and Baroque castle complex of painted towers, courtyards, and a moat still home to bears.
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This guide to the State Castle & Chateau in Cesky Krumlov follows the legend of Perchta of Rosenberg, born into the family around 1429 and married off young into a cruel household. You'll hear the plea she wrote her brother to rescue her, and how, generations after her death, staff and family across Rosenberg properties began reporting a woman in white gliding through these corridors, her expression said to signal what was coming. The Rosenbergs kept building this castle as if she were still watching.
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