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About Purkarec
The village Purkarec is famous from bygone times as a rafter village which spreads on the bank of the river Vltava, about 8 km north from Hluboká nad Vltavou, in the region of České Budějovice. It was established as a small town together with a local castle Karlův hrádek by king Charles IV. Purkarec was a small town even at the beginning of the 17th century, but the disasters of the thirty-year war damaged it to a great extent. After this war, Purkarec remained a small village, which did not achieve further development. The history of rafting has its own memorial – the Memorial hall of rafting and seamanship and also a big stone with a memory card put above the Vltava river, towards the Chapel of St. George. This original, gothic chapel from the 14th century has a Roman Revival tower from the second half of the 17th century.
In the village, there are some buildings of South Bohemian folk Baroque style.
Some prehistoric mounds were also found in the woods around Purkarec.
