Town Hall of Český Krumlov
Merchant's house turned civic seat, cellars hiding a torture museum below a former justice square.
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This guide to the Town Hall on Český Krumlov's main square traces the space back to fourteen forty-three, when it was a market and, some say, a place of execution, long before it took its gentler name, the Square of Accord. It follows the building itself from an abbot's first walls around thirteen oh nine to the town council's purchase of the merchant's house in fifteen ninety-seven, and down into the cellars, now home to a walk-through Museum of Torture. From there it takes up a stubborn local legend about a girl accused of stealing a ring from a nearby church, and asks how much of what the town remembers about her ever actually happened.
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