Interesting facts about Písek

• Písek is home to the oldest preserved bridge in the Czech Republic.
• It was also likely the first Bohemian town to house the famous Hussite vats, where residents deposited their valuables.
• Písek became the first town in Bohemia to introduce permanent public electric lighting—on June 23, 1887, František Křižík illuminated the town center.
• Remarkably, the independent Czechoslovak Republic was proclaimed in Písek on October 14, 1918—two weeks before the rest of the country.
• Over the years, Písek has earned several poetic nicknames, including 'the South Bohemian Athens', 'the Town of Schools and Students', 'the Town of Pensioners', 'the Mecca of Violinists', and 'the Town in a Sea of Forests'.