Blatná

Blatná (Czech pronunciation: [ˈblatnaː]; German: Blatna) is a small town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, with a water castle in the center of an artificial lake and a landscape garden around it. It lies in a pleasant rolling countryside with a mosaic of fields, meadows and hundreds of ponds and nearly no industry. Blatná is also the seat of the Municipality with Extended Competence and Municipality with Commissioned Local Authority within the same borders. Although the area has been inhabited since the 6th century, the first written record of Blatná dates back to 1235, when probably just a wooden fortress built on a rocky piece of land in the middle of a marshland (blata in old Czech, hence the name Blatná - A Marshy...