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After the recapture of the city, the Emperor granted General Schwarzenberg a new coat of arms: a raven (Rabe) feasting on a fallen Ottoman defender of Győr (Raab)

One of Bohemia’s greatest artistic treasures was donated to the Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod around 1285 by Záviš of Falkenstein. Who was this nobleman who rebelled against a king and made kings, seduced princesses, and was ultimately beheaded by a king?

In the cemetery of the Church of St. Bartholomew in Vyšší Brod, founded in 1259, stands an unusual grave: a simple concrete monument bearing a red star and a gold hammer and sickle, with the gilded inscription below

The inhabitants of the Land of the Rose commemorate its medieval greatness in many ways, but most spectacularly at this time of year, in mid-June, when the three-day Festival of the Five-Petaled Rose is held in Český Krumlov.

Although the first Jews expelled from Vienna settled in Nikolsburg’s Jewish quarter as early as 1421, the true flourishing of the community began in the 16th century. This was when Nikolsburg became the political, cultural, and spiritual center of Moravian Jewry