Czechia · Self-guided walk
Třeboň in one walk 8 sights, 35 minutes
A self-guided walking tour of the Třeboň Old Town: 8 sights on one 2.4 km loop, about 35 minutes on foot, back where you started.
No two days to spare? Here is the short version: the big sights in one loop. I would take longer. I always take longer.
At a glance
The walk in numbers.
- Distance
- 2.4 km, a loop
- Time
- about 35 minutes of walking at 4 km/h, plus however long you stop
- Sights
- 8
- Start and finish
- zámek Třeboň
- Steps
- no streets with steps on the route
- Cost
- free: no guide, no booking, no tip
The route
Map of the Třeboň walk: 8 stops, one loop.
The gold line is the walk. The numbers are the stops, in the order you reach them. The pale lines are every other street in the Old Town.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
The stops
8 sights in Třeboň, in walking order.
Each stop says how far the next one is and which streets take you there.
1. zámek Třeboň
the start
The biggest thing on this level by a distance, out on the south-west side, with a park behind it that keeps going until it stops being a park. The street named after it is forty-four metres long, the shortest one here. A modest address for a house that size.
Next: Žižkovo náměstí, 170 m, about 3 min, along Zámek.
2. Žižkovo náměstí
about 3 minutes of walking from the start
The southern of the two big open spaces, and the one people cross rather than linger in. Short, narrow, and the point where the level runs out of streets and starts thinking about water. Fifty-eight metres of lane is all that separates it from the other one, which makes them nearly one place with two labels.
Next: Novohradská brána, 100 m, about 1 min, along Trocnovské náměstí.
3. Novohradská brána
about 4 minutes of walking from the start
This is the door to the long way round. Go out by it and the level stops being streets: it becomes a bank with a pond along one edge, and it holds that for the better part of a kilometre. Half of what I like about this town happens outside its own ring.
Next: Masarykovo náměstí, 240 m, about 4 min, along Trocnovské náměstí, Žižkovo náměstí, Petra Voka, Masarykovo náměstí.
4. Masarykovo náměstí
about 8 minutes of walking from the start
The long one, Renaissance and Baroque house fronts down its whole length. The old hall's face was painted in 1742 with three coats of arms, and one of them is this city's own badge, the one that got you here. The tower above it is open to visitors. At number 103 somebody has modelled the entire place in marzipan. I think about that more often than is good for me.
Next: Hradecká brána, 100 m, about 1 min, along Masarykovo náměstí.
5. Hradecká brána
about 9 minutes of walking from the start
All four gates here are named for the road that leaves by them: this one points at Jindřichův Hradec, the others at Nové Hrady, Trhové Sviny and Budějovice. Stand underneath and look west. You get the whole length of the market place in one go, which is the best free view in town.
Next: svatý Jiljí a Panna Marie Královna, 230 m, about 3 min, along Husova.
Lunch break
U Míšků, Husova 11, about 30 m off the route, open Mon–Thu 11:30–21:00, Fri–Sat 11:30–22:00, Sun 11:30–16:00.
A family guesthouse in an old house on Husova, with a restaurant of private booths and a garden out the back. More on what to eat in Třeboň.
6. svatý Jiljí a Panna Marie Královna
about 12 minutes of walking from the start
Do not stop at the front door. The good part is beside it: a covered walk running round all four flanks of a courtyard, kept almost as it was laid out, and the street outside is called klášterní nádvoří, so the address tells you what used to run this corner. The tower over the lot of it is the tallest thing in town.
Next: Husova kaple, 580 m, about 9 min, along Husova.
7. Husova kaple
about 21 minutes of walking from the start
The youngest thing I hand you all day, by centuries, and the easiest to miss. It stands on Seifertova wearing a house number like the doors either side of it, out past the ring where the streets get newer. Count the doors.
Next: Palackého náměstí, 550 m, about 8 min, along Palackého náměstí.
8. Palackého náměstí
about 29 minutes of walking from the start
The west end of the level, and the plainest open space on it: wide, flat, and used rather than admired. Walk east from here and you enter the Old Town by the fourth gate, the one nobody puts on a postcard. Wide and flat is easy eating.
Back to the start: zámek Třeboň, 430 m, about 6 min.
Every stop counts from the street; the hours are for going inside. Opening hours from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Check before you go.
After the walk
The rest of Třeboň.
This loop is 8 sights. The Old Town is 31 streets, and I have opinions about all of them. Every street of the Třeboň Old Town, with what to eat and where.
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