Vltava Cultural Route
The cultural route is a real and ideological line around which natural, cultural and social events oscillate to create a unique and distinctive cultural heritage area. The cultural route is a bridge between the present and the past, a link along which people, goods and ideas have travelled and continue to travel. There are world-famous cultural routes such as the Way of St. James, the Limes Romanus or the Silk Road with their time-changing cultural meanings and contexts. The Czech Republic also has a number of important cultural routes at both local and national level and its location at the centre of Europe is in many ways a place of crossing, overlapping and intermingling of such routes. However, one of them has a privileged place among them, linking the past with the present and the natural and cultural heritage in a particularly profound and inspiring sense. This cultural route is the Vltava River.
Vltava Route
The route connects important monuments and cultural or natural sites on the Vltava, some of which are under the direct administration of the National Heritage Institute (Rožmberk Castle, Český Krumlov Castle and Chateau, Zlatá Koruna Monastery, Hluboká Chateau, Zvíkov Castle, Veltrusy Chateau) with the aim of establishing the Vltava as a European Cultural Route, promoting interest in the Vltava cultural heritage and developing related tourism in the long term.
