Trips around Drnovice

A very interesting and at the same time visited place is the Seč quarry. The quarry has an area of about 180x100m and a depth of 20-30m compared to the surroundings. The quarry mined sand, which contains different coloured materials (sands, sandstones, clays). The quarry thus alternates colors from white, to beige, to red, to brown, depending on...

In the middle of deep forests above the romantic valley of the Křetínka River stands the picturesque Svojanov Castle, one of the oldest royal castles in our country. It is the only castle in our country whose architecture combines Gothic and Empire, that is, the Middle Ages and the 19th century. Svojanov Castle was founded around 1224 by the...

The lookout tower on the Horní les hill (774 m above sea level) is 59 meters high, its base is 9 meters below its level. You climb the circular staircase to the walkway and find yourself 38 meters above the ground and 803 meters above sea level.

n the village of Vortex there used to be so-called 30 years ago. Navratilova's grinder. It was a move placed on Rovechina Creek and contained some seventy carved figurines, which were driven by a jet of water and moved in different ways (cutting, dancing, nailing a nail ...). The original Vortex Mill was probably decades in the making that its...

The Balcarka cave is located south of the Island at Macocha, in the northeastern part of the Moravský kras CHKO, in the core of the rocky meander of the Dry Gorge called Balcarova rock. The five-metre-high entrance to the Balcarky cave has been known since time immemorial, with the discovery of fireplaces and various tools from the earlier Stone...

A 15-foot cylindrical concrete tower from 1961. Circular view from the roofed gallery at a height of 12 meters (Drahanská vrchovina, Brno, Pavlovskaya hills). The lookout can be approached either from Lelekovice by a marked cycling route of 3 kilometers on rough asphalt to the crest of the hill, which can also be reached comfortably from Vranov...

The Punk Caves are the most sought-after caves in the Moravian Karst - they are located two kilometers from Skalní Mlýn and are accessible through an entrance in the wall of the Pustý žleb karst canyon. They gained their popularity thanks to the fact that they allow visitors to reach the bottom of the Macocha abyss and at the same...

The ruins of the castle are located on top of an elongated hill about 10 kilometers north of Pernštejna Castle and form a dominant feature of the landscape around Pivonic. Zubštejn was not very large, because its dimensions were determined by the top of the hill on which it was built. On the northern side it was protected by a...

Pilgrims will find a beautiful lookout tower at an altitude of 370 meters between Blansk and Boskovice. The Spešovská lookout tower was built from wood in 2012. The lookout tower reflects the traditions of carpentry and metalwork and also bears the municipal coat of arms, in addition, there are sculptures of three local notables - the Czech...

The unique baroque historical pharmacy built in 1784 is located in Letovice on the ground floor of the main building of the Letovice Hospital, to the left of the main entrance to the premises. In the beautifully restored pharmacy, it is possible to admire figural ceiling and wall paintings depicting the healing of the sick. Also worth noting is...