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| | Travel guide - Eastern Bohemia (Pardubice) - accommodation in hotels and apartments - Prague hotels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | It is a region of old-fashioned village chroniclers and religious fanatics and, at the same time, a region where the Renaissance and particularly the Baroque blend most impressively with the Bohemian environment. |
 | | The castle of Kost, overlooking the Plakanek valley, with the charming Bohemian Paradise as backdrop, belongs to East Bohemia, as does the town of Hradec Kralove, a town of the Bohemian kings' widows, or the Baroque Kuks of Mathias Braun whose sculptures rise as an alley not far from the Elbe river flowing towards Jaromer. |
 | | Likewise, Litomysl, the birthplace of Bedrich Smetana, Vamberk and the villages in the surrounding hills, famous for their fine lace, the folk Christmas cribs still carved by local people out of linden wood and assembled into moving Nativity scenes, are all part of East Bohemia. |
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