Today, the town of Tábor is the second largest South Bohemian town with more than 35 000 residents, and it has become an important transportation, economic, and cultural centre of the region. During the centuries, it has undergone many constructional transformations, but it has kept its medieval nature until now, and because of that, its historical downtown was proclaimed a landmark preservation area. Visitors of the Old Town can take delight in romantic alleys or the facades of houses of burgesses, or visit the Hussite museum with its underground corridors, Kotnov Tower, or a holy shrine in Klokoty.