Village and fortress Žumberk

The Žumberk fortress is located approx. 30 km from České Budějovice and only a few kilometers from Nové Hrady. The first mentions of the fortress are from the middle of the 13th century. In the 17th century, it was rebuilt into a Renaissance villa in the Italian style. In addition to the reconstruction of the fortress, fortification walls with bastions were created at this time, which surrounded the historic core of the village and the fortress itself. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the fortress was used as an economic…