Regional Tourist Guide Guide Tourist Regional www.slovacko.cz This project is cofinanced by the European Union I have my deep, family roots in Slovácko. My folks mowed wheat here, bred horses and tasted wine, my mother and aunt knew how to paint the forefronts and plinths, they em- broidered costumes and shirts for men – so that had one for Friday, one for work day. My cousins taught me to sing wedding songs, fold petticoats and bind sheaves. During the feast or whenever there was some time, people sang beautifully. Even today, when I get there, it is like coming to a warm bed. You could say that this was a Slovácko of long time ago. Yes, it was. But it is worth seeing even now. There are chateaus, nice villages, wine cellars, some of them painted, green vineyards and hills, and sometimes even a castle. But the best of all, dear friends, is the ease, good people, excellent wine, beautiful songs and music. Who has once been will come again. You can’t get all the good things in once. You wouldn’t have the time. Dana Zátopková 2 CONTENTS FOLKLORE AND FOLK TRADITIONS 04–08 MONUMENTS AND HISTORY 09–15 WINE AND WINE-MAKING 16–20 CULTURE AND MUSEUMS 21–24 NATURE AND LANDSCAPE 25–31 CYCLING 32–34 ACTIVE HOLIDAYS 35–39 SPAS AND WELLNESS 40–41 TOWNS OF SLOVÁCKO 42–45 CONGRESSES 46 USEFUL TRAVELING INFORMATION 47 THE ZLÍN REGION 48–49 MAP OF SLOVÁCKO AND SURROUNDINGS 50–51 Published by: The Region of Zlín with support from the European Union and Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic, 2006 • www.kr-zlinsky.cz/tourism, www.strukturalni-fondy.cz • Texts and layout: Avedon Destination Agency Ltd. • Photo: Archive of the Region of Zlín, Region of Slovácko and towns of Slovácko, the Museum of Slovácko, Avedon Company Ltd., TIC Valtice, Spas of Hodonín, Partnership Foundation, Municipal Museum and Gallery Břeclav, KSK Vlčnov, Foto TOAST for Zlín Region • Photographers: Jan Halady, Mgr. Vít Hrdoušek, Milan Karásek, Mgr. Pavel Kosek, RNDr. Petr Macháček, František Maršálek, Ing. Michal Solařík, Libor Staňa, Mgr. Petr Titz • Graphic design: Jan Janák • Not for sale 3 Folklore and Folk Traditions THE MOSAIC OF ATTRACTION Uherské Hradiště – Festival of Wine and Open Monuments For many people, the Slovácko region is land of folk customs, Everybody who has been to Slovácko will tell you that the cymbal music, fanciful costumes, good time, food and drinks. Slovácko cuisine, famous for its excellence and honesty in the What is so extraordinary and so fascinating about the local use of meat, grease, custard, plum jam, cabbage, greaves and festivals that each year brings thousands of visitors from many other good things, multiplies the magic of the region. around the world? And why was the Slovácko dance called Good food goes with good drinks – the plum brandy known Verbuňk included in the UNESCO list of oral and immate- as slivowitz is a nectar and a heal-all made from plums that rial world heritage? The answer lies in the joy that naturally are widely grown here, or apricots and service tree fruits. We springs from the Slovácko dancers, singers and musicians and cannot omit the good wine made at the wine-making centers carries over onto others. The answer lies in the capacity to such as Boršice, Bzenec, Polešovice, Mutěnice, Čejkovice, Ky- create freely, improvise and have a good time while doing it. jov, Prušánky, Strážnice, Blatnice pod sv. Antonínkem, Velké The answer is also hidden in the diversity that the Pavlovice, Mikulov or Valtice. Each name is a legend. Slovácko region rightfully boastst. It is like a tree This refined mixture of music, dance, costumes, with string branches – the regions of Horňácko, grandmother’s cooking and the drink is hard Dolňácko, Podluží, Moravské Kopanice that to resist – especially when it is offered fall into further regions and the individual in the picturesque setting of blue and villages. And each sprouts blossoms in a dif- white cottages with painted forefront ferent flower. Each of these regions has a or in the cosy atmosphere of the wine different style of embroidery on their cos- cellar. Come and see for yourselves that tumes, different songs; the local cakes, wine Slovácko, folklore traditions and hospitality and slivowitz (plum brandy) tastes a little is one and the same thing. different each time, – but always good. 4 The Mosaic of Attraction – “Kopánky” is protected as a village his- PETROV toric reserve. Typical of the area is the use Probably the most valuable preserved com- of the original building materials – adobes plex of viticultural folklore buildings in the and skilfully piled up stones. The interi- Czech Republic. Since 1983, the Plže wine ors of the houses where people live even cellars have been protected as a village his- today, feature the original layout of the toric reserve. About 80 historic wine cellars area into the house-place, chamber and with Baroque style facades in the form of the closet. Some of them even have the old forefront with blue plinths and oak doors black kitchen where meals were prepared form several rows flourishing with full- on open fire. Several of the houses in the pledged vintner life. village (house n. 73 that is protected as Strážnice – Museum of Southeastern Moravia a monument, for example) still have the STRÁŽNICE “height” – a room on the first floor above Museum of the Southeastern Moravian Village the living room. – 64 objects are placed here from all ethno- MONUMENTS OF FOLKLORE graphic parts of Slovácko. Among the unique ARCHITECTURE KNĚŽDUB items is for example the exposition of viticul- The uniqueness of the Slovácko region is un- The recently renovated rural Baroque house tural buildings with a vineyard presenting derlined by its folklore architecture. The hun- with the unique folklore stuccoes was built wine-growing from the most distant times dred-years’ long traditions in many villages at the end of the 18th century. It is the na- until today. Programs of popular customs speak out through the white facades with blue tive house of the Uprka brothers, the artists are held here for the visitors – the erection plinth with colorful flower motives around the of Slovácko, and today features an exposi- of May poles, harvest festivals, the Closing windows and forefronts by the handy paint- tion on them. Not far from the house is the of the Mount or demonstrations of popular ers. Rich farm houses have been preserved “Slovácko Cemetery” with artistic tomb- crafts. Near the museum, the recently estab- together with small cottages, lumber rooms, stones of the personalities of the cultural life lished Museum of Milling Trade was open in barns, cellars wine cellar alleys, windmills, in the region. the renovated medieval Průžek’s Mill. fruit drying plants as well as wayside crosses www.straznicko.cz, www.knezdub.cz www.nulk.cz, www.straznicko.cz and small chapels with the statues of St. An- thony or St. John of Nepomuk and other KUŽELOV TOPOLNÁ saints. ČNÉ STEZKY This mill, the best preserved windmill of the Monuments of folklore architecture – houses Dutch type in the Czech territory, was con- n. 90 and 93 with period interiors, two floor BLATNICE POD SVATÝM structed in 1842. Today, you can see it func- lumber rooms, second-generation house and ANTONÍNKEM tion during demonstration functions; the blacksmith’s workshop. The premises also Collection of viticultural buildings below nearby living areas and outbuildings feature feature several small structures – fruit dry- the hill of Stará Hora with the ground floor exhibitions of the Horňácko way of life and ing plant, lever and pulley water well, smoke- pressing room that is divided into two floors the local small-scale farming from the turn house, beehouse and a wooden cross in the in the interior. of the 19th and 20th centuries. orchard with old varieties of fruit trees. www.technicalmuseum.cz www.slovackemuzeum.cz HLUK Houses n. 283 and 284. The house n. 284 LANŽHOT features an exposition documenting the de- House n. 155 with decorated forefront the velopment of the local costume and popular typical three-fold layout and the “hook household from the 17th to the 20th century. backyard” with an embankment is now the The houses are open for public at times of local museum with the exposition of the lo- significant festivals such as the local festivals cal costumes, painted furniture, the period or the Dolňácko Festival. During the rest of dishes and other furnishings. The newly re- the year you have to make an appointment. novated back yard area now hosts tempo- rary exhibitions. HRUBÁ VRBKA The uniquely preserved projection of the PAVLOV Horňácko area village with two rows of stone A unique urban complex with a row of farm Fair barns with many granaries in front of houses with typical features of Baroque houses built of stone, sometimes mixed with architecture and with Česká street that in clay. Similar folklore farming structures a very unusual way documents the develop- Kuželov – Windmill can also be seen in the nearby villages, e. ment of viticultural buildings from simple g. Javorník, Suchovské Mlýny, Nová Lho- cellars to ground-floor pressing rooms and ta, Hroznová Lhota. living rooms above them. The oldest build- ings in Česká street come from the 17th cen- JAVORNÍK tury. The complex, is protected as a village The preserved complex of buildings in the historic reserve. Eastern part of the village of Javorník www.obec-pavlov.cz 5 Folklore and Folk Traditions woodcarver František Gajda and his students. You can be there when a cymbal is made if you visit the workshop of Mr Jura Galuška in Ostrožská Nová Ves.