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Tips for trips

A triangle of historical cities (bicycle)

Litomyšl - picturesque Renaissance chateau decorated with unique sgraffito (UNESCO), chateau theatre with period ornamentation, chateau brewery featuring the room in which composer Bedřich Smetana was born, museum, gallery, square with Renaissance, Baroque, and Empirical houses with arcades
Polička - medieval 14th-century rampart with 19 bastions, 1220 m long, is among the most well-preserved in Central Europe, the tower of St. Jacob's Church - birthplace of Bohuslav Martin, gallery
Svitavy - Museum with exposition of the birthplace and struggle of Oskar Schindler, picturesque square with burgher homes, town hall and monumental church that affords a spectacular view

Romance on a model train (bicycle)

In the summer, a motorised historical model "choo-choo" train transports weekend visitors along a narrow-track railroad, which is a museum exhibit.
Moravská Třebová - Renaissance chateau from the beginning of the 17th century
, museum Cimburk - castle ruins

The Knights of Toulovec (walk, bicycle)

Toulovec Stables - romantic countryside sandstone city, rocks and canyon
Nové Hrady - Rococo chateau with garden and ruins of the original castle above it

Up to a Romantic castle (bicycle)

Bouzov - Romantic Pseudo-Gothic castle, popular with film makers, with several sight-seeing trails
+ Javoříčko - caves with extensive homes and a wealth of stalactitic adornments, a passage depth of about 5 kilometres Svojanov - stately ruins of a 13th century castle, preserved in an Empirical structure

Into the gorge and caves

Moravský kras (Moravian Karst) - the famous Macocha gorge has a depth of 138,5 metres, a complex of multilevel caves, rich with stalactites, opportunity to navigate part of the system by boat
Cave of the Blanik Knights - man-made cave with statues of the 16 knights of Blanik and their commander, St. Wenceslas

Tradition and folklore

open-air museum of folk architecture Vysočina, featuring a mill, ironmonger settlement, smithy, workshop craft and wood houses

Military ramparts

Hanička, Bouda - complex of ramparts and fortresses from the Second World War with preserved original structure

From the experiences of the Wild West

Boskovice - Western town of WildWest, Jewish ghetto and cemetery, ruins of castle with unique well featuring pedal system from the 16th century, the only Napoleonic chateau in Moravia
Western town of Šiklův mlýn + Pernštejn(11) - monumental 13th century Gothic castle, among the most well preserved in the Czech Republic, with a maze of corridors and narrow staircases

Relaxation in Lázně Velké Losiny

spa town established in the 16th century on the sources of sulphuric springs, featuring outdoor thermal baths, chateau with arcades - a gem of Moravian Renaissance - with picture gallery and an incomparable armoury, Central Europe's oldest paper mill - which, to this day, is still in continuous operation, producing hand-made paper

Shopping, history, entertainment and something more...

Brno - Špilberk - a fortress and prison, monumental churches and cathedrals, cloister with mummified Capuchin monks, the Functionalist villa of Tugendhat - a pearl of modern architecture (UNESCO), museums and galleries, observatory and planetarium, botanical gardens, zoo
Olomouc - second-largest municipal heritage reservation in the Czech Republic, the country's largest Baroque sculpture - the Column of the Holy Trinity (UNESCO), the famous astronomical clock of the Gothic town hall, palace, cathedrals, churches and cloisters representative of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture, observatory, museums, zoo Pardubice - several late Gothic and Renaissance burgher houses, 60 m high Green Gate with outlook tower, vast Renaissance chateau, churches, observatory, museums and galleries