The hung corridor
The castle's covered passage over the street — the most famous frame.
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Latrán wins for the seasoned: quieter nights, nearer the car parks, its guesthouses smaller and warmer-priced — the square minutes across a bridge. The square's bank wins only the grand river views — and for dawn departures Latrán's northern parking is plain mercy.
From Latin latus, 'the side', likely via German: the 'side' quarter beneath the castle against the 'proper' town on its bank — medieval division of labour printed as a name: market and burghers there, service and craft here. And the fabric survived truest precisely here, the 'poorer' side nobody rebuilt.
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The castle's town beneath its walls: Latrán is the servants' and craftsmen's bank — castle staff lived here under it for centuries — its winding street running from the sole surviving Budějovice Gate to the Barber's Bridge as a chain of painted Renaissance fronts the twentieth century barely touched. Here are the details square-chasers miss: house 79 with its muraled scenes, the roofline of singular chimneys, the white landmark church of St Jošt, the Eggenberg brewery with its yard — and passing beneath the castle's covered corridor hung over the street is the most famous frame's moment. Walk it twice: by day for facades and craft shops more honest than the square's tourist row — and at evening when it empties back into a pure street of centuries under its lamps.
The castle's covered passage over the street — the most famous frame.
Sgraffito and murals untouched by the twentieth century — a street as museum.
Latrán, 381 01 Český Krumlov