Rural Baroque

Rural Baroque

Holašovice UNESCO

Holašovice UNESCO

Located in Holašovice is an almost completely preserved medieval complex of residential houses and granaries, connected by enclosing walls with gates and arched entrances to the village square. This layout, along with the preserved stucco design (so…

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Jakub Bursa’s Houses

Jakub Bursa’s Houses

Rural Baroque style buildings of a very specific type, famous especially thanks to texts written on the facades, can be found in the Prachatice area. The author was primarily Jakub Bursa, because he was also the only confirmed master bricklayer of…

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Muzeum venkovského života (Museum of Rural Life)

Muzeum venkovského života (Museum of Rural Life)

The Museum of Rural Life shows life in the countryside to the public and supports the preservation of village traditions. The entrance to the museum is through the Rural Baroque gate of the former farm “U Blumů” from 1848, which is a work of the…

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Soběslavská Blata (Soběslavská Marsland)

Soběslavská Blata (Soběslavská Marsland)

This group of fairy-tale villages in the Rural Baroque style is regarded as the centre of the whole area of South Bohemian marshland. They were called wheat or rich marshland. In the village of Záluží, you can see a typical marshland room and visit…

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Zbudovská Blata (Zbudovská Marshland)

Zbudovská Blata (Zbudovská Marshland)

This is an historical area between Hluboká nad Vltavou and Netolice with a comprehensive set of popular Rural Baroque architecture that is of unique importance and quality. The most important villages of the area are the village conservation areas…

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