Creator of the Czech seas

Our country has no sea, but those who visit the Třeboň region may feel like they are in a seaside region. We owe this romantic landscape to a number of great men who, over the centuries, transformed this once neglected corner of Bohemia into its present form. The most important of them was Jakub Krčín of Jelčany and Sedlčany, regent of the powerful Rožmberk family and builder of the largest pond colossi not only in the Czech Republic but in the whole world. Almost everyone knows that he was a brilliant builder, but less is known that he was also a brilliant economist and businessman, who could be called without exaggeration the predecessor of Tomáš Bat'a...