Painted tower above red roofs
Český Krumlov
A small Bohemian town in a river loop, with red roofs and a castle tower painted pink, green and yellow.
Why Český Krumlov is roof red
Český Krumlov lies in the south of the Czech Republic, wrapped in a tight double bend of the Vltava river. Above it stands a large castle, begun in the 13th century and extended in Renaissance and Baroque styles. Its round tower is painted with coloured bands, arches and false stonework in pink, green, yellow and white, restored in the 1990s to its 16th-century look. Many castle walls are covered in sgraffito or painted to imitate cut stone, a fashionable trick of the Renaissance. Below, the town is a tight cluster of red tiled roofs and house fronts in pastel colours. The historic centre has been a World Heritage Site since 1992.
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- Shekhawati In: Digrajsingh, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kutch In: Zeel Satyendra Modi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kanchipuram In: Ssriram mt, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Auroville In: Kaspar Konrad, Public domain, source
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