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THE HISTORY OF ZNOJMO HAS OOMPH NATURAL SCENERIES OF VRANOV

The royal town of Znojmo was Extra tip: Visit the ancient The Baroque Vranov nad Dyjí town of Vranov nad Dyjí? See founded by King Ottokar I of Znojmo underground! It is Chateau is situated on a steep it from the Lovers’ Lookout! the Přemyslid dynasty. From one of the most extensive rock in the wonderful landscape In summer, a sightseeing train the beautiful Gothic Town Hall underground labyrinths in of the Podyjí National Park. The goes from Vranov to the Vranov Tower and Vlk Tower you can Europe. A tourist train will interiors are furnished with Reservoir and the beach. see picturesque streets and take you as far as the Louka luxurious items, precious works Try an object-hunting game, the Podyjí National Park with Monastery, where you can taste of art and the impressive Hall of a game for hikers involving the peaceful Gránické Valley. wines from Znovín winery in Ancestors. You can even find a puzzles. There are three options Znojmo is the sunniest place in addition to tasting some history. decorative garden here. available here: around the river, the Czech Republic and full of Alternatively, you can take a around the castle and the so- cosy cafés and noble churches. wine bus (VINObus) and visit the Extra tip: A lovely view of the called Clary’s Trail. wineries in the environs. chateau and the picturesque www.znojemskabeseda.cz/en www.zamek-vranov.cz/en

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ZNOJMO AND PODYJÍ FOR PADDLERS SOUTH MORAVIA WITH WINE

Everyone will enjoy the Extra tip: By bike, on foot, by car, Try the Moravian wine trails! Podyjí National Park offers a River! Equipment, courses and on a horseback… or in a canoe! The longest, the Znojemská more demanding terrain. helpful instructors are available Podyjí is the only national park Trail, is 189 kilometres long and at the Stará Vodárna (Old in Moravia, so it offers a wide connects 55 wine-growing Extra tip: The phenomenon of Waterworks) paddling centre. range of options. The river valley villages. Explore the vast area South Moravia are cellar alleys. Board the canoe here and you in a landscape with plenty of of aromatic white wines. They are usually situated at the will reach the campsite forests will enchant you. You Those who like straight roads edge of villages and you will be after 15 kilometres, and then can go hiking to the Sealsfield’s through vineyards should enchanted by their atmosphere. Hrádek, a famous wine- Stone, for instance. Steep rocks try the trail near Moravský Clinking of glasses, friendly growing area, after another 11 versus relaxing meanders of the Krumlov. Romantic souls will chatting and singing can be kilometres. See the nature of river. love the winding route near the heard from the slightly open the borderland from a boat! meanders of the Dyje River. The doors of the cellars. www.centrumvodarna.cz www.vinarske.stezky.cz 5 6

AROUND ZNOJMO AND WINE TASTING ROMANCE IN THE BÍTOV REGION

The Gothic Znojmo Castle Extra tip: The castle complex Go and live romance at the bike? Try the twelve-kilometre- from the 11th century is situated houses a Brewing Exhibition Cornštejn Castle Ruins, which long Pivovarská 12 (Brewery in the centre but its walls offer and the famous Rotunda of pulses with life all season. Lager) bike trail. Start at the a spectacular view of the green St. Catherine is also on its Jugglers, medieval music and Hvězdička lookout, go across valley of the Dyje River. Take a premises. As a royal town, performances by swordsmen – the forest to the Slaměný Most, peek in the ladies’ budoir and Znojmo has the remnants of you will have history within easy to the Jezírko Lásky and the in the gentlemen’s saloon with a castle fortification and a reach. If you cross the bridge, Bítov Castle. If you have come oriental works of art. The South defensive tower. You can find you will get to the Bítov Castle by car, go to the Uherčice Moravian Museum in Znojmo some refreshments in HoZpoda with stuffed dogs and a torture Chateau. The flourishing invites you to other precious and ReZtaurace in the brewery chamber. premises of the chateau will monuments! or in the Enotéka wine shop guide you through architectural with a design café. Extra tip: Have you come by styles and a wonderful park. www.muzeumznojmo.cz/en www.navstivtevranovsko.cz/en

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JEVIŠOVICKO’S CHATEAUX AND NATURE NEAR THE AUSTRIAN BORDER

A beautiful Renaissance Extra tip: The Jevišovice Reservoir Visit the large snow-white Extra tip: You can visit Chateau chateau with rich history. is dedicated to fishing and mill in Slup. This remarkable four kilometres Visit Starý Zámek in Jevišovice recreation and forms part of the Renaissance building has four from Slup. This chateau with with two sightseeing routes, a Jevišovka Nature Park. Here the functional water wheels and a an amazing colonnade is chateau and a forecourt. Walk Veselka campsite is found, with millstream. The Development located on a hill above the across the courtyard and visit a cosy beach. The chateau in of Milling exhibition will show town. Although it is one of the St. Louis’ Chapel with a unique Boskovštejn houses the largest you the whole milling process most precious Renaissance painting of the Circumcision European collection of bicycles! on the original equipment. treasures in the Czech Republic, of the Lord. You can see a Not far from Hluboké Mašůvky, The Technical Museum in it is now in a dilapidated state. collection of folk furniture, you can enjoy romantic views won first place in the Gloria Continue to a deer farm on the historical musical instruments with the landmark of the Musaealis competition for this Ječmeniště vineyard track from and even the chateau kitchen! Lapikus Castle Ruins. exhibition. there. www.jevisovice.info/en www.tmbrno.cz/en/pamatky/water-mill-in-slup 9 10

HAND-MADE PAPER OR A GIANT PUZZLE MUCHA AND DISCGOLF

The “Stará Škola” paper mill Extra tip: Lego in a chateau? The chateau in Moravský Extra tip: There are rare conifers and museum in Želetice is only Mucha’s Slav Epic artwork as Krumlov has become famous growing in the vast English park. 16 kilometres from Znojmo. In a huge puzzle? This is nothing thanks to Mucha’s Slav Epic. It is a perfect place to have a the sky-blue manufacturing out of the ordinary in Miroslav There is also a large Jewish picnic and play discgolf. In the works, handmade paper is Chateau. If you fancy a tour cemetery with tombstones centre of Krumlov, the Knight produced in the same way as other than the classic one, centuries old near the castle House Museum is worth visiting, two thousand years ago. Go follow the Scary Trail and park. A pleasant walk will take and those who long for nature for a tour and try it for yourself. discover the legends of Czech you to the pilgrimage chapel should try the Krumlov-Rokytná You can decorate your sheet and Moravian castles. Then go of St. Florian, a lovely structure Conglomerate nature trail. of paper with, for example, tea along the nature trail of the with an unbelievably beautiful The bike-friendly wine trail of leaves or crushed minerals. Miroslavské Kopce (Miroslavské view. Znojmo also passes through this Hills) Natural Monument. place. www.handmadepaper.cz/en www.mkrumlov.cz

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VRANOV’S “ADRIATIC” BORDERLAND GEMS AROUND ZNOJMO

The Vranov Reservoir is one walkway connects Vranov nad Fans of military history treasure Extra tip: The visitor centre of the warmest and cleanest in Dyjí with a sandy beach. Fans the pre-war Czechoslovak of the Podyjí National Park in the Czech Republic. You are in of yachting and windsurfing fortification. The premises in Čížov is situated next to the Iron the Podyjí National Park with the love it here and you can rent Šatov and the infantry cabins Curtain Memorial and the long- Baroque chateau Vranov nad the necessary equipment. You MJ-S Zahrada (Garden) and MJ-S distance EV13 bike trail leads Dyjí rising above you. There are can find other two beaches 2 Úvoz (Ravine) are maintained by here. Nový Hrádek u Lukova sightseeing steamboats sailing in the western part, one of the Technical Museum Brno. The castle ruins look like a setting across the reservoir and around which is hidden in the beautiful Zahrada infantry cabin is a great for fairy tales. The formerly it you can enjoy cycling all the Bítov Cove. Also here is the retro trip back to the 1980s. The guarded border zone allowed way to . Tatra Veteran Museum and preserved strip of fortresses nature to take back its part of Firemen’s! There is a Museum of along the border with Austria is the castle and it literally merged Extra tip: A white elevated Motorcycles in nearby Lesná. worth making an excursion! with the walls. www.vranovska-plaz.cz/en www.tmbrno.cz/en/pamatky/infantry-block