The net vaults
Southern Gothic soaring over a triple nave — grace in stone.
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Three golden angles: the wooden Barber's Bridge (the classic), the Seminary Garden terrace over the roofs, and the Cloak Bridge looking back. Sunset gilds the tiles, morning clears the river — the towers inseparable from any of them.
The same saint patrons all Bohemia: Prague's cathedral the great mother, this the south's daughter — and the Rosenbergs meant it as open answer: their town deserved a church rivalling the capital's. The shared name is the story of Bohemian ambition itself.
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The town's second tower: Gothic St Vitus (finished 1439) answers the castle tower from the opposite bank — the famous Krumlov picture is both towers over the tiles, the church its slimmer, more graceful half. Inside is pure south-Bohemian Gothic: a triple nave under soaring net vaults, fifteenth-century murals surviving in original patches, and the marble tomb of Vilém of Rosenberg and his wife at the altar's heart — the red-rose family that made the town, at rest in its church. It crowns the lane climbing from the square, so the walking route meets it naturally — and its being free makes it the ideal noon pause: cool silence and stained glass amid the lanes' crowds and heat.
Southern Gothic soaring over a triple nave — grace in stone.
Original patches surviving five centuries — the church as record.
Kostelní, 381 01 Český Krumlov