Hradec Králové - in the footsteps of a military fortress

We are going to a city that used to be (and perhaps still is) rightly called the Hall of the Republic. Even before Hradec Králové became a salon, thanks to the work of architects Jan Kotěra, Josef Gočár, Oldřich Liska and others, it used to be a military fortress. We travel to the time when Hradec Králové was transformed in the years 1766-89 into a then modern massive bastion fortress with 8 bastions and 8 ravelins. The impetus for building the fortress was…