Most of my photographer friends who visited Czechia during the 90 always came back with sets of photos of the iconic old square of Telc, I even become more intrigued with this city after leant that many of my friends from Asia came to Czechia with specific plan to visit Telc, so when I planned to travel around this country, Telc was one of the top five I want to see with high expectation. I travelled from Cesky Krumlov with a short break at Trebon to be arrived at Telc around noon.

At first, I walked around Telc’s old city area, it was lovely but nothing particular striking after medieval marvel of Cesky Krumlov. Then I went to see its famous city square, when I approached the square, I knew immediately that this place was really a reason why people come to Telc. The triangular shaped square was indeed really beautiful with stunning building around the square. Each building’s façade was truly a fine example of this kind of architecture. Few of renaissance buildings did make the square to be more interesting than plain baroque one which could be found in other city square in this region, strangely these baroque-renaissance buildings were harmoniously blended into one beautiful single square. I also did visit the nice renaissance castle; however, after walked around the square, I felt something not right.

This city maybe beautiful, a must see that truly match my high expectation, but there was nothing apart from the postcard perfect image. It was heavily sterilized for tourism in my opinion, I felt like I visited a theme park not the city where real people live and work. Despite the feeling of emptiness from the visit, I would say that Telc was a beautiful place, fine World Heritage Site and a place that should visit of Czechia. By the way, maybe it was my luck, only few cars on the square, so I did not find those cars to ruin the overall experience.