Bohemia is a land defined by its walls. A near-perfect ring of mountains surround the land, the Ore Mountains, the Bohemian Forest Highlands, and the Giant Mountains. The central plain in the middle have thus borders that have scarcely shifted since the Middle Ages. Within them, the Přemyslid dukes won a royal crown no other prince of the Empire could claim, and under Charles IV, Prague became the Imperial capital itself. That confidence bred defiance: the Hussites broke with Rome a century before Luther, and a defenestration in Prague set Europe alight for thirty years. Today the Habsburg Historicist and Baroque Cityscapes sit nestled between some of the greatest treasures of the European Gothic and Renaissance Epochs.
