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These are generally built in the style of the Rustic Baroque, also known as South Bohemian Baroque: "Rustic Baroque is a term for the unique architecture of South Bohemia. The local folk bricklayer masters Martin Paták and František Šoch created a new type of South Bohemian farmhouse with an ornate frontispiece in the middle of the 19th century.
Museum of South Bohemia. The Museum of South Bohemia was founded in 1870 and opened to the public in 1877 in a house next to the city hall. The current museum was built in the Neo-Renaissance style in 1899–1901 and opened in 1903. The museum has four permanent exhibitions: archaeological, natural science, geological and ethnographic. [44]
Tábor is located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of České Budějovice and 70 km (43 mi) south of Prague. It lies on the river Lužnice. Tábor is located in the Tábor Uplands. The highest point is the Hýlačka hill with an altitude of 525 m (1,722 ft) and the lowest is the surface of the river Lužnice.
Český Krumlov is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of České Budějovice and 134 km (83 mi) south of Prague. It is situated on both banks of the Vltava River. It lies in the Bohemian Forest Foothills. The highest point of the municipal territory is the hill Vyšný vrch at 744 metres (2,441 ft) above sea level.
To the south, over the Danube, the Romans extended their empire, and to the southeast, in present-day Hungary, were Dacian peoples. In the area of modern Bohemia, the Marcomanni and other Suebic groups were led by their king, Marobodus, after being defeated by Roman forces in Germany. He took advantage of the natural defenses provided by its ...
At the beginning of the 15th century, Bohemia was already divided into 12 regions, but their borders were not fixed due to the frequent changes in the borders of the estates. During the reign of George of Poděbrady (1458–1471), Bohemia was divided into 14 regions, which remained so until 1714, when their number was reduced to 12 again. From ...
Písek is located about 42 kilometres (26 mi) northwest of České Budějovice and 80 km (50 mi) south of Prague. Most of the municipal territory lies in the Tábor Uplands, but the southern part lies in the České Budějovice Basin. There are several steep streets and some suburbs lie more than 70–90 metres above the town centre.
The territory extends into four geomorphological mesoregions: Tábor Uplands (west and centre), Vlašim Uplands (north), Křemešník Highlands (east) and Třeboň Basin (south). The highest point of the district is the hill Batkovy in Pohnání with an elevation of 724 m (2,375 ft), the lowest point is the river bed of the Lužnice in Bechyně ...