Tabor

January 2004

I'm still not sure why we went to Tabor in the end but the Lonely Planet gives an interesting short history of the place. 

The Short History of Tabor From The Lonely Planet

God's Warriors, The Hussites, founded Tabor in 1420 as a military bastion in defiance of Catholic Europe.  The town was organised according to the biblical precept that 'nothing is mine and nothing is yours, because the community is equally owned by everyone'.  New arrivals threw all their worldly possession into casks at the marketplace and joined in communal work.  This nonconformism helped to give the word Bohemian the connotations we associate with it today.

Planned as a bulwark against Catholics in Ceske Budejovice and farther south, Tabor is a warren of narrow broken streets with protruding houses that were intended to weaken and shatter an enemy attack.  Below ground, catacombs totalling 14km provided a refuge for the defenders. 

I cannot of course remember any of this.

Castle On The Road To Tabor

There are heaps of castles in the Czech Republic.  Here's another one on the way to Tabor. Less pretty but imposing none the less.  Lenka probably thought I was the biggest nerd making her stop to take a photo of this.

Tabor

Tabor

Some building ... not really much to look at but it definitely looks ready to shatter down on our car in the car park below.

The very long named Gothic Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Mt Tabor.

It doesn't look too gothic (although the tower was built later in the baroque style) and I have no idea what Transfiguration means. 

Actually, according to the dictionary, transfiguration means:

1. to change the form or appearance of.

2. EXALT, GLORIFY.

There you go.

Tower on the town hall.

Kangaroos are everywhere ...

Manhole cover in the snow.

Park bench ... anyone want to freeze their butts off on in the park?

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