Hiking tips

Just outside Prague, the diverse landscape of Brdy woods and rocks on the banks of river Vltava, a paradise for all nature lovers, cyclers, tourists or mushroomers, awaits you.

At the same time you can find dynamically evolving cities in the area: Příbram  -  a city with a long coal mining history or Dobříš with a beautiful castle and equally spectacular park.

Tourist season opens the gates to many monuments; do not forget to visit the aristocratic residences and castle parks, museums, memorials and medieval forts. The open-air museums and technical monuments are also woth seeing!

 

Příbram

In the city neighbourhood, silver was discovered in the 14th century; in the 16th century, the city was promoted to a royal mining town and the mining continued with intermissions until the 1970.  In this period, the uranium mining grew more important, which made the city thrive, but also brought great suffering to the people in the neighbouring forced labour camps.

The old Příbram city centre is situated around the T. G. Masaryk's square and the baroque church of St. Jacob.

We recommend to visit:

Ø      Important pilgrimage point Svatá Hora u Příbrami

Ø      The mining museum Příbram

Ø      The monument Vojna na Březových Horách (Battle at Březové hory)

Ø      Aquapark

Ø      Antonína Dvořák's monument in Vysoká u Příbrami

Ø      T. G. Masaryk's monument at castle Hluboš

Ø      The monument of the last battle of WW2 at Slivice

 

 

Dobříš

The city on the Golden Route, which passed through in the 10th century, was later popular among the Czech monarchs. They have built castle Vargač here as a mansion for the royal hunter. In the year 1630, the king sold the whole manor to Bruno Mansfeld, whose offsprings still own the castle.

In front of the castle there is a baroque-revival church of the Holy Trinity and not very far from there a cemetery with a church of Saint Cross with a princely tomb. On the square, a few baroque houses have been preserved - as well as a Classicis town hall. In the city there was a large jewish community, whose Roman-revival synagogue is nowadays used as a cultural centre.

 

We recommend to visit:

Ø      Dobris castle with a French garden and an English park

Ø      Karel Čapek's monument at Stará Huť U Dobříše

 

Sedlčany

A city on the boundary of Central and Southern Bohemia used to be governed by Rosenbergs, Lobkowiczs, Jakub Krčín z Jelčan a Sedlčan, but also by German soldiers, beacause during the 2nd world war the inhabitants were moved out and the city was used as a military training camp for SS units.

Amongst the most interesting monuments belong the Gothic church of St. Martin and the dominant of the central square – a Rennaisance-revival town hall from 1903.

To the fans of motorsports, the city is well-known for the Republic and Europian

championships in rallyecross and autocross held in the Sedlčany basin.

 

We recommend to visit:

Ø      Open-air museum Vysoký Chlumec

Ø      Josef Suk's monument in Křečovice

Ø      Kuníček lookout close to Petrovice