The Coronation in the Great Hall

The arrival of spring in the Bohemian Karst was an awe-inspiring resurrection of nature and light. Where the sheer granite cliffs and limestone crags of Zámek Vranov had been locked in five months of brutal, suffocating ice and howling blizzards, the mountainside now bloomed with an explosion of radiant, verdant color. The melting snowfields on the high ridges fed thousands of crystal-clear cascades that tumbled down the gorge, filling the…