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![[Borovany flag]](../images/c/cz-cb-bo.gif)
by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 27 May 2002, after image by Petr Exner.
Flag adopted 8 Oct 2001
A village, that was already noted in the year 1186, was at the end of
the 13th century the residence of the Vítkovci family and was later owned
by the Rožmberks. The next owner, Peter from Linda, established an Augustinian
monastery in Borovany with the church of the Visitation of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, that was built in the Late Gothic style during the years 1455-1466.
Its Baroque tower is from the year 1729, in the year 1746 a Baroque
chapel with rich fresco decorations was built as an extension on the north
side of the church. The representative three-winged building in the Baroque
style from the year 1760-1770 was used as the location of the monastery
prelacy. After the monastery was disestablished in the year 1785, the owners
of Borovany at that time, the Schwarzenbergs, changed it into a castle.
The area of the former Trocnov, where the Hussite leader Jan Žižka
from Trocnov was born, is one of the most visited places of the Borovany
region.
Jarig Bakker, 29 May 2002
![[Borovany Coat of Arms]](../images/c/cz-cb)bo.gif)
image from this webpage, located
by Jarig Bakker, 29 May 2002