Welcome
to the Rakovník region!
According to a legend neither Jan Žižka (the leader of the Hussite fighters who were feared in the whole Europe in the 15th century) nor the Swedish soldiers during the Thirty-Year-War managed to conquer the Křivoklát castle because they did not find it in the endless woods which surround it. Today the visitors of Křivoklát, one of the most important and beautiful historical sights of the Czech Republic, don´t have to be afraid of this. ...
