south-moravia.com TheSouthMoravia southmoravia Published by the Tourist Authority South Moravia The Mysterious in cooperation with MAS Moravský kras z.s. and TIC in South Moravia Region The project Strengthening of Marketing Activities and Development of Partnerships in the South Moravian Region was implemented with the contribution of funds from the state budget of the Czech Republic from the program of THE MORAVIAN the Ministry for Regional Development. KARST AND © South Moravia – photo bank, authors: Jan Brettschneider, ENVIRONS archiv SJČR - Petr Zajíček,Sportpark Boskovice, Oldřich Hrb, archiv obce Rudice Leave your worries and your car at home when travelling around South Moravia – you can use www.idsjmk.cz Vydal (Centrála cestovního ruchu ….) ve spolupráci s DMO např Moravský kras a okolí… BRNO 1 2 THE LAND OF A THOUSAND CAVES HISTORY FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY The Moravian Karst is the most Extra tip: Try Speleoferata! An artificially created Cave of Extra tip: The nearby Kunštát significant karst area in the Wearing a helmet and overalls, the Knights of Blanice near Chateau has beautiful interiors Czech Republic. The Punkva you will experience climbing Rudka hides giants. Seventeen with original furniture, a chateau Caves with the Macocha Abyss frames, abysses and rope larger-than-life statues of restaurant and a park. The offer an underground cruise on ladders. The route ends deep knights created by amateur chateau has prepared a mini- the Punkva River. The Balcarka below the earth’s surface. A less sculptor Stanislav Rolínek. You trip called Stops Around the Cave is one of the local gems. difficult version is offered by an can see only the huge shoes Chateau – you can walk through The Moravian Karst House of Escape Game, suitable even for of his 14-metre-tall statue of the surroundings of the chateau Nature near the Skalní Mlýn children. You can also test your Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk today. for an hour and a half. The hotel will show you how caves physical fitness on a breathtaking The surroundings of the cave whole route is barrier-free. were formed. A geopark and a cave wall. All equipment will be are arranged as an open-air water game await you outside. provided to you on site. park and gallery. www.moravsky-kras.caves.cz/en www.rudka.cz/jeskyne 3 4 ZEN-LIKE CALM IN KŘTINY JEWISH BOSKOVICE Jan Blažej Santini situated the Extra tip: Visit an arboretum The former Jewish ghetto instead of flowers when they Church of the Name of the near Křtiny. Here you can see in Boskovice is one of the visit a cemetery. Virgin Mary, a pearl of the flora from Japan, lianas or a best-preserved in the Czech Baroque style, in a beautiful large collection of willows. Republic. It boasts an original Extra tip: Boskovice Chateau landscape.Here a Gothic statue Every weekend, you can draw synagogue and the Jewish is one of the most beautiful of the Virgin Mary can be seen strength from the twenty- mikveh ritual bath. After buildings in the Empire style in on the main altar. It is also worth three hectares of nature in the dark, the narrow streets and South Moravia. Have you ever listening to one of the largest arboretum: meadows around street lamps resemble the seen a copper globe, where carillons in Central Europe. It the stream, forest slopes and a mysterious quarter. Stop at the the starry sky is represented plays twice a week or by prior fairy-tale pond. Visitors can go cemetery and note that there by heraldic emblems? Go on arrangement. from there to the truly unique are small stones placed on the a night tour, watch a fencing Výpustek Cave. tombstones. Jews place these show or fireworks. www.pmkrtiny.cz www.regionboskovicko.cz 5 6 CASTLE COMFORTS, LOVELY NATURE FIND REST AND RELAXATION IN BLANSKO Lysice Chateau is situated 35 an orangery. Smell blooming A Late Renaissance chateau and speleology. There are km north-east of Brno. The camellias in February. is situated in the centre of interactive exhibitions and interiors boast rich collections Blansko. Besides the several special tours for families with of furniture and handicrafts Extra tip: A café on the premises historic salons, you can kids. from the Renaissance to the Art of the Lysice Chateau serves experience an unconventional Nouveau and historicist styles. good coffee and tells of the sea castle tour. It is a seat of the Extra tip: Don‘t forget to refresh Rarities include a collection voyages of Erwin Dubský. After Blansko Museum which and cool off in the summer heat of Czech glass, weapons and dessert climb up the hill: near can show you the history of at in the local aquapark. Lovers oriental objects. Take a walk the village of Kozárov, on the ironworking, the only such of history will appreciate the through the terraced garden, Babylon hill, there is a lookout museum in the Czech Republic. nearby Classicist chateau Rájec column colonnade and the tower, 42 meters high, modern Other exhibitions display, for nad Svitavou, built in the French chateau garden centre with and beautiful! example, measuring equipment style of Louis XVI. www.zamek-lysice.cz/en www.muzeum-blanenska.cz/en 7 8 SEE BEARS AND BEES FROM GEODESY TO WATER FUN An 8-metre-high entrance to here with such names as the What did maps and measuring out with all its beauty. the Kateřinská Cave opens Bamboo Forest and the Witch. instruments look like in our in the valley slope near Skalní ancestors’ time? You will find Extra tip: The Letovice Castle Mlýn. The part with the Main Extra tip: How many eyes do you out in Velké Opatovice in won the competition for Dome is the largest cave think a bee has? Do bees sleep the Moravian Cartographic the Best Renovated Cultural space in the Czech Republic at night? How is honey made? Centre. The main exhibit has an Monument in South Moravia. accessible to the public. A man You will find out in the Moravian area of 100m2! The giant plastic Renovated interiors, the English lived here in the Palaeolithic Karst Beekeeping Museum in map of Moravia and Silesia, park, a mini zoo. Where else Era and his remains have been Veselice. Have something good created at the beginning of the can you spend a night in the preserved, as have the bones to eat here! The Podvrší lookout 20th century, could never be dungeon? Go to the Křetínka of Quaternary animals such as tower lies not far from there. displayed due to its size. Only Reservoir in Letovice as well. bears. You can see dripstones here was it finally able to stand www.visit.caves.cz/en/cave/katerinska-jeskyne www.velkeopatovice.cz/moravske-kartograficke-centrum 9 10 ACTIVITY-PACKED BOSKOVICE UNESCO IN OLEŠNICE Do you like riding a bike through the atmosphere of the Wild You can go on an excursion and the former ice house in the forest? The single trails West. In an abandoned quarry, see dyed textile production in Olešnice. You can see the local in the Doubravy (Oakwood) you can experience a theatre the workshop of the Danzinger Leprechaun and Lady Midday. forest are waiting for you! Ten performance, an authentic family in Olešnice. It has been The Museum of Historical kilometres of trails at three saloon, western restaurants, in operation since 1816, but the Vehicles of Czechoslovak difficulty levels, a pump track and hotels. There is an all-day secret of this family of dyers Production of the Hamerský and facilities with refreshments. program for kids and adults. Try goes back to the 16th century. Family is something quite You can choose the right bike your Indian and cowboy skills, They make blueprint using the different. Finish your trip with from the bike rental here. and enjoy tomahawk throwing, original techniques. a hike to the viewpoint above archery and panning for gold. the Olešnice Ski Resort. A Extra tip: The Wild West town Extra tip: Also visit the Museum destination that is worthwhile in Boskovice has recreated of Ghosts in the cellar of year-round! www.boskovickestezky.cz www.modrotisk-danzinger.cz 11 12 KARST BEAUTY OF ALL KINDS BREATHTAKING RUDICE A parade of karst hits in one heart of the Moravian Karst There is a windmill and a Extra tip: Kids can find an place? Go to the Sloup-Šošůvka offers an alluring trio: fun, museum in one in Rudice. office of Krasík Snail in the Caves, the longest cave system exercise and adrenalin. Jump Visitors can learn the history mill museum. The snail has in the Czech Republic. The into a thirty-metre-deep of mineralogy, speleology, prepared some great routes system of domes, corridors and abyss and you will zoom over iron working, metallurgy and with tasks and rewards. Then underground abysses is open the quarry for 190 metres at mining. The ten-minute 3D take a staircase formed by roots all year round. The jewel of the a speed of almost 50 kph. video projection will take you straight down to the Rudice caves is the Nagel Abyss, about This place also offers training to inaccessible spaces of the Sinkhole, where the waters 90 meters deep. ferratas. There is also a rope caves of the Rudice Sinkhole. of the Jedovnický Stream fall centre for kids, refreshments, People who love minerals will underground to a depth of 90 Extra tip: The Velká Dohoda equipment, and patient be astonished by the colourful metres. Area, a former quarry, in the instructors. varieties of quartz. www.moravsky-kras.caves.cz/en www.rudice.cz.