Czech Republic
South Bohemia
Písek District

Písek

Písek is a town in , known for having the oldest stone bridge in the Czech Republic. Due to its nice small historic centre, Písek might be a good stop on a journey between Prague and South Bohemia.
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  • Type: Town with 29,800 residents
  • Description: town in Czechia
  • Also known as: “Mesto Pisek”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Stone Bridge and Hydroelectric power plant in Písek.

Bridge
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The Písek is the oldest preserved early Gothic bridge in the and by its originality, although deprived of its dominants, which formed its tower with gates, is one of the rarest medieval bridges in Central Europe.

Museum
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is a museum.

Church
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic basilica in Písek in the of the . It has a nave, two aisles, and a bell tower on the south side of the western facade which has become a symbol of the town.

Písek

Latitude
49.309° or 49° 18′ 32″ north
Longitude
14.1478° or 14° 8′ 52″ east
Population
29,800
Elevation
374 metres (1,227 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CZ PSK
Open location code
8FXP845X+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1599176364
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3068293
Wiki­data ID
Q158245
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Písek” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيسك”
  • Basque: “Písek”
  • Belarusian: “Пісек”
  • Belarusian: “Пісэк”
  • Bulgarian: “Писек”
  • Catalan: “Písek”
  • Cebuano: “Písek”
  • Chinese: “Písek”
  • Chinese: “皮塞克”
  • Croatian: “Město Písek”
  • Czech: “Písek”
  • Danish: “Písek”
  • Dutch: “Písek”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيسك”
  • Esperanto: “Pisek”
  • Esperanto: “Písek”
  • Estonian: “Město Písek”
  • Estonian: “Písek”
  • Faroese: “Písek”
  • Finnish: “Písek”
  • French: “Pisek”
  • French: “Písek”
  • Galician: “Písek”
  • German: “Pisek”
  • German: “Písek”
  • Greek: “Μέστο Πίσεκ”
  • Greek: “Πίσεκ”
  • Hebrew: “פיסק”
  • Hungarian: “Písek”
  • Indonesian: “Písek”
  • Irish: “Písek”
  • Italian: “Pisek”
  • Italian: “Písek”
  • Japanese: “ピーセク”
  • Kalaallisut: “Písek”
  • Kazakh: “Pïsek”
  • Kazakh: “Писек”
  • Kazakh: “پىيسەك”
  • Korean: “피세크”
  • Latin: “Piseca”
  • Latvian: “Piseka”
  • Latvian: “Pīseka”
  • Lithuanian: “Pysekas”
  • Lombard: “Písek”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Písek”
  • Macedonian: “Писек”
  • Malay: “Písek”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Písek”
  • Moksha: “Писэк”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Písek”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Písek”
  • Norwegian: “Písek”
  • Ossetian: “Писек”
  • Persian: “پیسک”
  • Polish: “Pisek”
  • Polish: “Písek”
  • Portuguese: “Písek”
  • Russian: “Писек”
  • Serbian: “Pisek”
  • Serbian: “Písek”
  • Serbian: “Писек”
  • Silesian: “Písek”
  • Slovak: “Písek”
  • Slovenian: “Písek”
  • Spanish: “Písek”
  • Swedish: “Pisek”
  • Swedish: “Písek”
  • Tatar: “Писек”
  • Turkish: “Písek”
  • Ukrainian: “Пісек”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Písek”
  • Vietnamese: “Písek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Písek”
  • Welsh: “Pisek”
  • Welsh: “Písek”
  • “Písek”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Písek”. Photo: ŠJů, CC BY-SA 3.0.