"If you build it, they will come"
—Field of Dreams
HISTORY OF THE HOSTEL
In 1990, Cal Zukowski, a Canadian artist, came to Cesky Krumlov on his way to study art in Berlin. After only a few hours of setting foot on the cobblestones, he decided to ditch Berlin, and set up his easel here, in a town that many describe as "the Europe we had in mind when we thought of Europe." Four hours south of Prague, built in a valley and set off by a bend in the Vltava, Cesky Krumlov's castle and tower literally grow from a clifftop, lording over this town of spires, ceramic-tiled rooftops, crooked alleyways, and cobblestone streets. Swallows return every summer from the south to make their nests in the crumbled facades of ancient houses. It's a town that revels in its age, reveals itself slowly.

