Písek - Restored Gothic moat

Today, the park arrangement adorns the former moat, which was created in the thirteenth century together with the construction of the Sand Castle and its fortifications. It served for defensive purposes, but also as a medieval sewer. From the Putim Gate, which opened the city castles towards the south, a wooden drawbridge spanned the moat. During the Renaissance, it was replaced by the Stone Bridge, even later, in 1842, to it...