Image after Petr Exner's Vexilologický Lexikon prapory obcí ČR (2001)
- Borovany municipality, České Budějovice district, South Bohemian
region - flag adopted 8 October 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 flag]](../images/c/cz-cb-bo.gif)
image by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 27 May 2002
![[Borovany Coat of Arms]](../images/c/cz-cb)bo.gif)
image from this webpage.
