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Tel� is situated at the midpoint of the ancient Kings’s Way from Vienna to Prague. It is the best preserved Renaissance and Baroque town in the Czech Republic and is on the UNESCO list of cultural world treasures (like Prague, �esk� Krumlov, the Pilgrimage Church of St. John Nepomuk in �d�r nad S�zavou). Its magnificant main square is lined by the arcades of the Renaissance and Baroque houses, boasting painted frescos, figural motifs, sgraffito and gables created by Italian masons and stuccateers. There is a Renaissance castle with a park and garden, a gallery exhibiting work of the contemporary Czech artist Jan Zrzav�� and the fourteenth-century Church of St. James.