Beauties of Moravia
Protected landscape area MORAVIAN KARST
Landscape with submerging streams and over a thousand cave labyrinths.
Caves open to the public: Punkevni, Katerinska and Sloupsko-sosuvske jeskyne.
Lednice-Valtice landscape area
The garden of Europe, one of the most exquisite areas around a chateau and also the largest artistically shaped landscape in the world. In the area of almost 200 km2 the family of Lichtenstein created a mosaic of parks, gardens, ponds, rivers and forests, and added several sculptures, hunting lodges, chapels and colonnades. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
Podyji National Park
The youngest and the smallest national park of the CR with its dominant feature – the Dyje River which forms a border with Germany. The river shows its peak beauty between Podhradi and Znojmo, where it has formed a deep romantic valley with numerous meanders. There is a variety of plants and animals which is rare within such a small area.
Mikulov
A town with a Baroque chateau; wine making tradition; one of the largest preserved Jewish cemeteries in Europe.
Palava – a protected landscape area and a UNESCO biosphere reservation, limestone cliffs and thermophilic flora in rare steppes, forest steppes and debris forests. The highest peak is Devin (549 m).
Znojmo
One of the oldest Czech towns and the centre of wine making. Historical centre of the town with crooked streets, romantic views and cosy corners. Every year there is the festival of Znojmo Vintage which celebrates the arrival of king John Luxembourg (1327), who confirmed the historical town privileges.
Boskovice
A town with picturesque historical centre, a Jewish sector with a synagogue, a cemetery and an educational trail, an Empire chateau, a Gothic ruin, a museum, a western-style town, and an arboretum.
Pernstejn Castle
One of the most beautiful castles in the Czech Republic and also one of the best preserved Gothic-Renaissance fortresses in Europe. Every year there is the Festival of Pernstejn Domain.
Veveri Castle
The second castle of Brno towers over Brno Lake in the Podkomory forests. The Gothic, originally royal and hunting castle is veiled in numerous legends and tales. A site of frequent cultural and social events.
Slavkov u Brna
A town with an exquisite Baroque chateau with a large park. The chateau with its 150 chambers and rich decorations from early Baroque up to classicism. Its most beautiful rooms include the Hall of Ancestors, Rubens’ Hall and St. Cross Chapel. There is also a unique Historical Hall, where the armistice between France and Austria was agreed upon on December 6, 1805.
The adjacent park with 16 ha area is decorated by sculptures of Italian master Giovanni Giuliani.
The Peace Memorial
Built in 1910-1912 in memory of the victims of the Battle of the Three Emperors in 1805. It was built of quarry stone and it symbolizes an old Slavonic monument – it is 26 m high.
In 1925 a museum was opened here, there is an ossarium under the chapel floor.
Bucovice
The state-owned chateau is a unique building of Italian Renaissance. It was designed by Jacopo Strada together with the arcade courtyard with 90 columns decorated by reliefs and the fountain in the courtyard.
PORTA COELI – Predklasteri
The Cistercian monastery is dominated by exclusive pieces of work of medieval sacral architecture – the portal of the monastery church, cloisters with a garden of Eden and a capitular hall. The museum houses a permanent exposition “History and Present of the monastery of Porta Coeli”.