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LIKE THE LAST LADY ARISTOCRAT CAPTAIN A BOAT FOR ONE DAY

The Castle, made with a treasure and then try the The Bata Canal is a unique There is a great cycling route famous by the Czech film The chateau café. technical monument, dedicated along the entire waterway. Last Lady Aristocrat, shows to recreational navigation the life of its last owners. There Extra tip: Try a pedal draisine on from Otrokovice to Skalice. To Extra tip: Become the captain is an opulent French Baroque the old Baťa railway. Rent it just this day, you can see the coal of a houseboat! Combine a garden, pheasantry, orangery, for yourselves, you will make the tipper in Sudoměřice and tilting cruise along the Baťa Canal with riding school and stable on 3 kilometers around Ratíškovice bridges. Navigation also takes discovering monuments, wine the chateau grounds. You can in an hour. The route connects place on the separate river cellars and protected natural borrow astonishing replicas the Podluží Wine Trail and the sections Kroměříž – Otrokovice sites.There are motorboat, of period clothes and go on a Moravian Wine Trail. Make a and – Hodonín. Rent canoe and bicycle rentals in, for tour wearing them. You can visit stop at the Pražírna (Roastery) a motor boat or take a more example, Veselí nad Moravou the stable and the dragon cave in . luxurious ride on a cruise ship. and Strážnice. www.zamek-milotice.cz/en www.batacanal.cz

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THE REGION OF WINE AND APPLEBERRIES THE LAID-BACK SLOVÁCKO REGION

The Plže Wine Cellars are Extra tip: Strážnice, alive with Events for the public, focused standing not far from there. situated fourteen kilometres folklore and music, is four on organic farming and Thanks to its ingenious from Hodonín. You cannot kilometres away. You are in the experiential field trips, are construction, the mill revolved see such blue decoration of region of appleberry trees. organized in the Sonnentor so that the blades were always cellars anywhere else. The area Get familiar with them on the Herbal Paradise in Čejkovice. on the windy side despite the consists of eighty wine cellars Appleberry Nature Trail, marked You can relax in the herb garden enormous weight. You will see which have been built since with a red sloping stripe. Start of St. Hildegard and in the Tea how our ancestors processed the 15th century. Wine tourism in the village of Tvarožná Lhota Salon. This place exudes a the essential grains. And the flourishes here and also in the and near the Travičná Lookout unique rural atmosphere. romantic night tour! The newly cellar lanes of Sudoměřice and Tower you can decide if you installed lighting shows the mill Kozojídky. will choose the short circuit Extra tip: Go to Starý Poddvorov from a different perspective. or the longer one to Radějov. as well! There is a windmill www.obec-petrov.cz www.sonnentor.com/en-gb 5 6

A DUTCH MILL IN MORAVIA THE ENCHANTING WHITE CARPATHIANS

The Bukovany Mill near Kyjov enclosure with friendly goats. There are five MTB circuits Extra tip: You can visit an is a fifteen-metre-high lookout with single trails in the pristine exhibition on traditional homes tower of the Dutch type. Extra tip: Try Moravian wines and nature of the White Carpathians and life in the Horňácko Region There is a sales gallery with traditional Moravian Slovak in near Strážnice. The five routes in the late 19th and early 20th an exhibition of ceramics and the Bukovany Mill. Go to Ždánice of the Trail of Life start in the centuries in the area of the an exposition in the mill. The and take a walk along the Lučina recreation area. The windmill in Kuželov. You are in a atmosphere will take you back Butterfly Paradise nature trail. facilities and the training area region where people can turn to the times of the Czechs’ You can see over 80 butterfly are situated right next to the fruit into a liquid form. Try it great-grandmothers. There is a species at the beginning of reservoir. Enjoy the panorama yourself for example at the local hotel with a restaurant on the summer. Ždánický Les (Ždánice of the White Carpathians, vast family distillery. Cheers! premises. Play a game of mini- Forest) is worth a trip! meadows, zigzags among trees golf and send your child to the and natural drops. www.bukovansky-mlyn.cz/en www.trailoflife.cz

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SLOVÁCKO: MEET THE SLAVS THE HODONÍN ZOO AND BEYOND

You can learn about the history Extra tip: Go for a walk around The zoo in Hodonín is situated Extra tip: The Hodonín Zoo is of the Slavs in Great Moravia at Hodonín, a town in the heart of amidst greenery and boasts a starting point for a trip to a the Slavic Fortified Settlement Moravian with a several rarities. The family of thermophilic oakwood. It is in Mikulčice, one of the most pleasant atmosphere and a white lions is a spectacular ideal for hikers, inline skaters significant places illustrating sense of First Republic history, sight, while the Siberian tigers and cyclists. It is easy to find Czech history. You will encounter dedicated to spa services and usually do not just lie around the bike trail along the Baader the original fortifications of a relaxation. Treat yourself to a lazily but chase each other Alley, which will take you to the large acropolis, the remains of wellness procedure in the open around or frolic in the water. A Hodonín ponds. Their shores sacral buildings made of stone, pavilion of the Bliss Day Spa. 3D maze and a rope centre in abound with colourful birds and and a palace. Walk through the The town is the birthplace of the treetops is an attraction for photogenic flora. You can even urban forest and across the the first Czech president Tomáš kids. walk across the centre of the Footbridge of Great Moravia. Garrigue Masaryk. body of water! www.masaryk.info/english www.zoo-hodonin.cz 9 10

A TREASURE OF MORAVIAN SLOVAKIA SOUTH MORAVIA: NOT JUST WINE

The Strážnice Open-Air original environment. The Vrbas Museum in Extra tip: Directly in Ždánice, Museum will take you through Ždánice is a mecca for all visit the Observatory history, entertain children, and Extra tip: Come and relax in collectors! You can see over and Planetarium for daily show you live folklore. The Veselí nad Moravou, namely in six thousand exhibits in one observation of the sun and Museum of Villages in South- the castle park here. It is full place in the basement of this an evening viewing through East Moravia presents the of rare trees, interconnected Renaissance chateau. Objects telescopes. Also worth visiting regions of Slovácko, technical by lakes with bridges, and it commemorating General is Kyjov, where the brewery has water structures, the wine- features a fountain. Head to Laudon, moving models of a restaurant, a hotel and a beer growing area and the meadow the Radošov lookout tower water and wind mills, medieval spa all in one. Gentlemen will management area. Even though or to Blatnice pod Svatým villages and more. There are appreciate a hops bath, while the terrain was artificially Antonínkem to the origins of Napoleonic, numismatic and ladies will probably prefer, a modelled, it corresponds to the viticulture. entomological collections. herbal bubble bath. www.nulk.cz/web_skanzen www.vrbasovo-muzeum.webnode.cz

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THE WINE REGION AROUND MUTĚNICE MORAVIAN WINES AND A DESERT

Go to Mutěnice on foot or Extra tip: You will love the The underground of the Sebastian to have a beautiful by bike from Hodonín. Three painted cellars called búdy in Chateau houses the amazing view. asphalt roads lining picturesque Mutěnice! Follow the red tourist Chateau Winery. You can walk vineyards lead to the Vyšicko trail from the town hall. You find through the cellars and finally Extra tip: Visit the Váté Písky lookout tower, known as the six hundred wine cellars at the taste some award-winning (Air-Blown Sands) natural Triangle. The most comfortable end of the journey and there will qualitywines. You may want to monument with an area of route leads from the square in always be somebody who will go for a walk through the English almost ninety-five hectares! This Mutěnice towards Dubňany. The be happy to chat about local park, where the famous lime tree biotope is a unique example of lookout tower has a triangular customs with you and who will of Bzenec has been growing for sand-loving communities. The floor plan, a steel structure with offer you a glass of Moravian over nine hundred years. Climb sands come from the sediments a wooden staircase, and it is wine. up the hill across the vineyard to of the River which were nine meters high. the Chapel of St. Florian and air-blown out of the riverbed. www.slovacko.cz/misto/rozhledna-vysicko-mutenice www.bzenec.cz