If you’re traveling in the Czech Republic south of Prague, you may have the famously cute town of Český Krumlov on your itinerary. While it’s delightful, two nearby towns—straddling the regions of Bohemia and Moravia—feel less commercial and, for many, equally worthwhile.
Třeboň, a well-preserved town with an inviting Renaissance square, is nestled in a bucolic landscape of rolling hills. Its claim to fame is its nearby biosphere of artificial lakes that date back to the 14th century. Over the years, people have transformed what was a flooding marshland into a clever combination of lakes, oak-lined dikes, wild meadows, Baroque villages, peat bogs, and pine woods. Rather than unprofitable wet fields, the nobles wanted ponds swarming with fish—and today Třeboň remains the fish-raising capital of the Czech Republic.
