Travel guide Freistadt

The buildings of this Cistercian monastery and its church stand upstream from Linz on the south bank of the Danube. Originally Romanesque in style, it was to later become a Rococo masterpiece. On 6 March 1733, the monastic buildings were badly damage..

Rising on a rock overlooking the Vltava, Krumlov castle is the largest in the land after that of Prague. Endowed with forty or so buildings, it boasts in particular a Renaissance tower and a two-storey bridge which spans the moat separating the main ..

The rectangular main square or Hauptplatz is lined with arcaded houses, with porches and façades with pretty pastel shades of yellow, green or purple, sometimes adorned with delicate stuccowork. To the south-west, the elegant parish church tower, t..