Tábor

Tábor is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, about 50 kilometres north of České Budějovice and 70 kilometres south of Prague. It lies in the Tábor Uplands on the Lužnice River and has about 34,000 inhabitants, making it the second most populous town of the region. The radical Hussites, who became known as the Taborites, founded it in the spring of 1420 and named it after the biblical mountain in Israel, and it became the base for their military expeditions. Its historic centre is protected as an urban monument reservation and includes the Old Town Hall, which houses the Hussite Museum, Kotnov Castle with its tower, and a network of medieval tunnels under the houses. The Jordán Reservoir, created in 1492, is the oldest reservoir in Central Europe, and the town is a road and railway junction.