Vladař, Archaeological site in Western Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Vladař is an archaeological site on a basalt hill in Western Bohemia featuring defensive walls, terraces, and building remains from multiple historical periods. The layout shows how inhabitants used the slope for construction and chose the elevated position for protection.

Vladař was settled mainly in the late Bronze Age and above all in the 6th and 5th centuries BC; the visible walls enclose over 100 hectares and run about 3 km. Around 200 BC the site was largely abandoned after a fire destroyed the timber-framed rampart, and by the turn of the era it was empty. It has been a protected cultural monument since 1958.

The name Vladař also appears as Oppidum Záhořice, after the village of Záhořice below the hill. Václav Hájek z Libočan mentioned the ramparts in his 16th-century chronicle, and in the second half of the 19th century the site was classed among Bohemia's important prehistoric hillforts.

The walls enclose more than 100 hectares and run about 3 km, so plan a full walk from the northern slope to the western gate remains. No full archaeological excavation has taken place; the terrain was surveyed in 2002 and laser-scanned in 2010. Expect unmarked ground and overgrown ramparts rather than visitor infrastructure.

In 2004 a bronze figurine was found at the site, probably made in northern Italy or the eastern Alps; it formed a tripod for a conical wooden pyxis modelled on Etruscan bronze prototypes. The walls enclose more than 100 hectares and run about 3 km.