Nice place which I visited two times only: some 20 years ago, when the site was overcrowded because of a festival and trades. For the second time in Summer 2020 I found Holašovice very tranquil and almost empty.

I should declare openly that my basic urge to travel has never been directly related to hunting for WHSs of all kinds, and this is I would call as a side effect - I mean visiting the WHSs. Thus going to Holašovice was my plan regardless its UNESCO status or despite its lack of the OUV. The village is of national importance and it represents quite unusual kind of rural village. However, it does not stand out too much, because there are tens or even few hundreds of well-preserved rural settlements in the area of South Bohemia. Among many others, I enjoyed my visit to very tiny and pleasingly tranquil village Krnín with farm houses dating back to middle ages. However, even in Holašovice we can find granaries of similar age.

I would ironically say that fortunately Holašovice was inscribed in 1998 and not recently. Otherwise I would not be surprised with serial transnational nomination (I am pretty sure that Germany can offer some cute little village...)

To sum up: I enjoyed all my visits to Holašovice even if it is very hard to find any OUV.