A representative book about Český Krumlov has been published

Český Krumlov - The National Heritage Institute has published a representative publication about Český Krumlov - From a Residential City to a World Cultural Heritage Site. It has more than 1000 pages and 47 authors contributed to its content. It provides a comprehensive and diverse perspective on this exceptional UNESCO heritage site. The preparation of the book was supported by the Ministry of Culture, said the publication's editor Martin Gaži at today's launch.
The publication is divided into four main sections. The first section reinterprets the origins of the castle and the town and focuses on the fundamental features of the changes in the appearance of the site. The heritage conservationists, who create monitoring reports for UNESCO about the town, summarized and demonstrated changes in the last two decades with photographs.
The second section of the book maps artistically significant monuments in the town and places them in the context of the history of local church life. Readers can learn, for example, about medieval wall paintings, chapels in the Český Krumlov castle, in the Minorite monastery, as well as on the Cross Hill, the veneration of the relics of St. Callixtus and St. Reparatus, but also about the socialist-realist decoration of buildings from the 1950s.
The third section of the book examines the lives of the town's inhabitants. Readers can gain an idea of their social and professional composition, the system of public administration, education, relationships with the lord's court, or local Jesuits, and through the study of sexual offenses, even glimpse into their intimate lives. Specific fates of some local inhabitants are also discussed here.
The fourth part of the book attempts to view Český Krumlov through the eyes of past generations, whether through painters, graphic artists, and photographers, or scientists and writers, or, for instance, a pre-war Czech-minded miller from Vošahlík's mill, and even German post-war exiles.
The book, authored by heritage conservationists, landscape architects, archivists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians of everyday life, visual arts, literature, and music, is supplemented with hundreds of photographs and illustrations.