Trips around Český Krumlov

Adalbert Stifter´s Monument is situated in the writer's natal house. The building can be characterized as a small-town ground floor cottage with the farming estate. In archival documentation it was mentioned for the first time as early as the beginning of 17th century.

The Blanský Forest Nature Reserve was declared in 1990. It has an area of 212,35 km2. There are 15 natural preserves (Vyšenské kopce, Kleť, Dívčí Kámen, Kalamandra, Bořinka, Holubovské hadce, Jaronínská bučina, Vysoká Běta, Šimečkova stráň, Dobročovské hadce, Na stráži, Horní Luka, Mokřad u Borského rybníka, Malá skála, Ptačí stěna).

Budweiser Budvar brewery is one of the most successful food-production enterprises for many years in the Czech Republic. Almost half of the production is successfully exported into more than 50 countries in the world.

Cable railway was brought to operating on July 1 1961. Construction lasted two years and part on it took Transporta Chrudim, Elektrozávody Praha and Vodní stavby Tábor.

Originally royal castle from 14th century which was damaged by Jindřich of Rosenberg in 1395. In 1495 Peter IV. of Rosenberg invited there friary of St. Frank of Pauly to establish there paulanic monastery. Monastery with single-aisle church of St. Andrew never was finished and about 1530 wholly abandoned.

Červený Dvůr Castle - Rococo chateau, surrounded by English gardens - presently the Chateau houses a psychiatric rehabilitative center

Today the fortress no longer exists. It was situated on the place of today's residential building from 18th century and its adjacent yard. The cellars underneath the residential building are the only remains of that fortress.

Church of the Holy Mary Magdalena in late gothic style, built from 1487-1507 on the site of an older church. Significant example of Rosenberg late Gothic.

Dívčí Kámen castle is one of the castles in Bohemia of which the foundation charter was preserved. Today Dívčí Kámen castle with its 210 metres of length and 45 metres of width is one of the largest castle ruins in Bohemia.

Benešov nad Černou was founded in the second half of 13th century by Beneš of Michalovice as a settlement nearby the stronghold.

The fortified settlement of Chlum founded in the 13th century was reconstructed several times during its existence. Those reconstruction led to the fact that the settlement was changed into the farm yard in the 17th century.

The buildings of the fortified settlement are a remarkably valuable example of the Renaissance style of the 16th and the 17th centuries.

Only the torso of the sizeable residential tower was preserved. The tower had a square plan and the length of the sides was 9 metres.

Day trip to Zlata Koruna Abbey, Holasovice village and Hluboka Castle.

Are you interested in the graphite mining? Do you want to know more about mining work? Are you ready to underground excursion to the graphite mine at Český Krumlov?

Deep forests, romantic cliffs, secret peat bogs, ancient forests, vast natural parks, the blue surface of ponds and Šumava lakes, archeological excavation sites, remains of celtic settlements, gothic ruins, Renaissance castles and chateaus, Baroque monasteries, churches, and chapels - all this and much more is awaiting you during your wanderings through the marvelous landscape of South Bohemia.

The main reason for the building of the railway from Linz to České Budějovice was the transport of salt from Salzburg to Bohemia.

Aquatic work consists since 1960 of two dams, artificial water reservoirs and two hydro plants called Lipno I and Lipno II. This work was built mostly for water and energy purposes. Aim of construction was utilization of 160m slopeas source of top and controllable electric energy.

Southeast house number 102 located the remains of "old" cemetery. From the data indicate that the cemetery was established before the year 1480 Were buried here, and all the Jews in Linz until 1863 until the establishment of a Jewish cemetery in Linz.

A building resembling a grange was built on the place of the former fortress.

Now that you have seen all the sights in town, it is time for a trip through the unspoiled nature to the Kleť mountain, the highest peak of the Blanský les natural reserve.

Kleť Observatory is intended for specialist astronomical research which entails observation conditions of the highest quality. It is built on the highest point in Bohemia and is famous for its exploration of asteroids, comets, and unidentified objects.

Offering an incredible view of the Šumava Mountains, educative and interactive stops, great adrenalin sports entertainment for children and the longest dry toboggan in the Czech Republic, all this and much more can be found in Lipno – The Lipno Treetop Walkway – a unique attraction in the whole country.

From the time the castle was established by Vítek z Krumlova (1220 - 1272) in the 13th century, it performed the function of a fortress and an administrative centre of the estates that were part of the growing dominion of the members of the Witigonen family. Their estates were spread on the both sides of today's border between the Czech Republic and Austria.

The little three-wing Baroque castle with the central projection of a wall and four bays on the corbels in the front east side. The Baroque church of Saint Jan Nepomucký is joined to the south wing of the little castle.

If you're watching all the sights in the city, go on a trip to the top of swearing.

Omlenice - memorial to the victims of the Nazi death trains.

At the settlement of Kaplice-nádraží is a monument to the victims of the Second World War - on the site is a mass grave of 44 prisoners of the „Train of Death" of January 1945.

Lake Plešné is one of five glacial lakes on Czech side of Šumava. It has elliptical shape with length 540 m and width 150 m, area is 7,48 hectares and maximal depth 18,3 m. About 200 meters from the lake dike is situated 6 hectare stone sea with glacial origin.

Isolated forest with a small pit, quarry 0.5 km west of the village Muckov, 2.5 km east of the Black community in the drab Černá v Pošumaví hill, which is a few meters a powerful cartridge granulated limestone and dolomite limestone.

This small museum was founded thanks to the Village Authority in Bujanov, in cooperation with the Society for the Maintenace of the Horse-drawn Railway, and the South Bohemian Museum in České Budějovice.

Exposition is installed in two ground floor rooms. The first room introduces history of village Hořice na Šumavě and surrounding municipalities.

The Museum of Radios has been open since 4 July 2001. It is located in the center of the village in the old school building, housing also the Museum of the Village and Passion-play.

Unique technical monument, as Schvarzenberk's channel surely deserves its own museum.

Enjoy with us the beautiful Lipno lake, a place of peace! We operate since April (and continue till the end of October).

The protected area is formed under wet woods and wet meadows in the forest complex. The reason protection is an extensive set of natural spruce and alder on springs along small watercourses and peat meadow communities with characteristic floristic composition.

Would you like to see what our southern Bohemia region has to offer other than our amazing Cesky Krumlov?

The two-floor prismatic tower in the middle of the decaying yard was preserved until today from the original village and the medieval fortress.

Pilgrimage church of the Virgin Mary - the original church structure is from the late 13th century. The church was destroyed during the Hussite wars in 1422 and 1469, when the militia destroyed a school as well. Today's church was built in late Gothic style from 1471 to 1488. In 1670 the physician Ondřej Volkshofer from Krumlov commissioned an altar to be built.

In ex-abbay is located history of the post since the 16th Century till today.

The Protected Area lies on both sides of the Vltava River, on the steep rocky slopes of the river canyon valley.The steep rock full of large stones which is also called the stony see was created by the devil according to the legend. The visitors are attracted to make a romantic trip there but they should not climb up the stony sea.

One of the oldest castles in South Bohemia was built by the Family of Vítek around the mid 13th century. The medieval disposition of the castle consisted of the Lower and Upper Castle.

Baroque sculpture with the heads of angels, images of Christ and Saint Florian´s, Saint Sebastian and Saint Jan Nepomucký´s Sculpture. It is situated on the common. It was built in the second half of 18th century after the plague epidemic.

The thought of connecting the Vltava river with the Dunaj river, the flow of two rivers which lead into different seas, came about in the middle of the 14th century, during the reign of emperor Karel IV. The actualisation of this project only came towards the 18th century.

Individual ride from Kleť to destinations Krásetín, Camp Golden Crown, Czech Krumlov.

The protected area consists of mixed forest on steep southwest slope of Mount shoemaker.

Slavkov Fortress is one of a few buildings where the original connections of individual elements of a manor were preserved.

Small castle of Louzek is located as a river tear on a wide spit of the fiercely flowing Malše river.

The small castle of Pořešín is a very interesting rarity of the South Bohemian castle architecture of 14th century.

St. Jan Nepomucký´s Statue created in 1726 is located on a three-sided column with reliefs of St. Dominik, St. Leonard, and St. Václav, and statues of St. Donát, St. Florián, and St. Roch.

The first stone for chapel was laid down on 19. June 1550. Its founder Jan Častolar dedicated it to St. Voršila, patroness of his daughter.

Hluboká and Vltavou Chateau are unquestionably one of the true pearls of the Czech Republic. It is situated on a hill above the Vltava river about 10 km north of České Budějovice.

The first and decisive impulse to build the Stations of the Cross in Frymburk parish gave landowner from Lipno Adalbert Donauer, who at the beginning of ninetieths of 19th century paid six hundred of golds „for granitiform Stations of the Cross“. Chapel was solemnly consecrated on 13. October 1898.

The locality of Studenec near Rožmberk nad Vltavou is called after a well with miraculous water. There was a supported document issued in 1679 proving that it is allowed to celebrate masses in the newly built chapel. The chapel was given the name of St. Anna.

A lime tree in the community of Běleň not far away from Malšín has a very interesting fate. The lime tree is said to be the oldest lime tree in the South Bohemia. It was planted around the year 1200. In 1951 the lime tree / girth 12,5 metres / seemed to die after it had been thunderstruck. However, something very surprising happened. While the community of Běleň became extinct, the lime tree is still alive.

Only the ruins of the castle's fortification, fragments of the semicylindrical bastion and vigorous cylindrical tower situated on a narrow rocky spit above the Malše river were preserved to the present day.

The protected area consists of mixed forest on the eastern slope debris high stone (865 m), 1.2 km southwest of the village Klení.

The monastery was founded by Wok von Rosenberg in 1259. He called the Cistercians from Wilhering in Austria to there. On a wish of the founder the monastery became the monastery of the family. Together ten generations of the family were buried there.

The former abbey in Zlatá Koruna is the best preserved Cistercian monastery in Bohemia. The area of the monastery was in 1995 announced as the national cultural treasure.

The Preotected area of Žofín Primaeval Forest ranks among the highest possible protection category - National Park. It is situated in the middle part of the Novohradské Mountains.