Třeboň

Třeboň is a spa town of about 8,200 people in the Jindřichův Hradec District of the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, set in the Třeboň Basin on the shore of the fishpond Svět, about 19 kilometres east of České Budějovice. It was founded in the 12th century and grew into an important and wealthy town under the Rosenberg family in the 14th century. Its greatest development came in the 16th and early 17th centuries, when Jakub Krčín built the system of fishponds around it, including Rožmberk Pond, the largest fishpond in the world. The Schwarzenberg family acquired the town in 1660. Local peat bogs gave rise to a peat spa. The historic centre, built around Masarykovo náměstí with Renaissance and Baroque burgher houses, the Old Town Hall of 1563 and Třeboň Castle, is protected as an urban monument reservation.