Vlastiboř (Tábor District)

Vlastiboř is a municipality and village in Tábor District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.

Administrative parts
The villages of Svinky and Záluží are administrative parts of Vlastiboř.

Geography
Vlastiboř is located about 17 km south of Tábor and 32 km north of České Budějovice. It lies mostly in the Třeboň Basin, but it also extends to the Tábor Uplands in the north and east. The stream Bechyňský potok flows through the municipality. There is a set of fishponds fed by the stream, situated in the northern part of the municipal territory.

History
The first written mention of Vlastiboř is from 1354.

Transport
There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality.

Sights


All the three villages in the municipality have well preserved buildings in the Folk Baroque style and are protected by law as two village monument reservations (Vlastiboř and Záluží) and one village monument zone (Svinky).

Notable people

 * František Kotlaba (1927–2020), botanist and mycologist