The Coat-of-Arms of Písek

Písek's coat-of-arm is a shield with a silver square wall, battlement and an open gate. Behind the wall there are two towers with a window, a red roof and golden poppy heads. In between them is the Czech two-tailed lion on a red shield. On the top is a declining half-moon, a six-pointed star with two more of these stars alongside the towers. The coat-of-arms can be seen on many of the town buildings, the oldest known version is on the stone portal of the Dean's Church. The adjacent rectory is also decorated with artistic versions of the coat-of- arms. Not far from there stands the former Dvořáček Hotel, and one of its eleven graffiti created from a design by Mikoláš Aleš is the apotheosis of the coat-of -arms. The plague column on Aleš square is decorated with a copy of the original stone coat- of-arms. Its original can be found at the Town Hall where it is also painted onto the plaster in the tympanum.

File date: 27.12.2005