Czech Budejovice

The generous founding of České Budějovice in 1265 at the confluence of the Vltava and Malš rivers was the work of King Přemysl Otakar II. The city was endowed with numerous royal privileges and soon became a crossroads of trade routes connecting Bohemia with the Danube and became rich not only from trade, but also from the mining of silver, deposits of which were found in the 16th century in the nearby Rudolfov. A vast square square, unprecedentedly wide…