The view from the rampart of the walls in Polička

On the southern tip of Eastern Bohemia, on the border of Moravia, you can visit the royal city of Polička, founded in 1265 by Přemysl Otakar II. The fortifications, whose stone walls protected the inhabitants of the city and their property, will be of interest here. The Gothic fortifications are massive stone walls with nineteen bastions in a length of 1220 meters around the entire historic core of the city. A tour of a certain section is possible with a guide, you get off…