Liberec Things to Do

For 330Kc you can spend the day at Liberec's themepark. The place is huge.

We only visited the Aquapark section.
The Aquapark has 4 large slides designed for 10 years+; whirlpool; hidden areas which generate waves or shoot out water; water caverns; sunbeds; spas; saunas - with icy pools near them. If you loose your child, it's not easy to find them.

Open daily from 10.00 to 22.00.

Every Monday from 20.00 to 22.00 and every last Friday in the month from 22.00 to 23.00 you can swim in the AQUPARK without your costume!

Awesome!!! The Centrum Babylon is actually a hotel, “aquapark”, bowling alley, discothèque, restaurant, and shopping mall all under one roof. I only went to the aquapark, but it alone is worth the trip. Numerous waterslides, dozens of swimming pools connected to each other with tunnels, caves, slides, and bridges, and a massage parlor above. Really a lot of fun, and at least as far as the aquapark went there were very few tourists, mostly people from Liberec just out for a swim. Also, apparently in 2004 the Centrum Babylon won the "European Golden Pony Award" which is granted to the best amusement parks in Europe. If you stay at the hotel apparently you can buy a pass to all those activities, but because I stayed at the Pension Jasmín I just wanted to go to the aquapark. There's a pricelist on their website, but for 100-200 Kc you can spend many hours of fun at the aquapark.

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Liberec has a remarkable zoo and Botanic garden which are next to each other in one of the finest parts of the city. They collect plants and animals from all the world, some of which are very rare. The visit to the zoo or the botanic isn't expensive at all. The only little problem is that you should pay a small price when taking in a videocamera.

Even the streetlamps are worth seeing in Liberez. Just enlarge my photograph and you will see the great details and ornaments of this street-lamp that I saw in front of the theatre. At the end of the 19th century it was quite common to make them according to the area where they are standing. So the ones in front of the theatre might show sculptures of great poets .

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The area of Jested hill is the southern sport&tourism zone of Liberec. It's quite near the city, easy to reach and to walk around. There are several lifts uphill. In the winter - skiing, ski-jumping and so on. Right now there are new tracks and lifts being made.

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Tram 2/3 to Museum stop.

From the foyer of the museum you walk into a temp. exhibition room - while we where there it was an amazing collection of film posters, dated from the 1945 to 2005 - including the Czech posters for Yellow Submarine, Alien, Pink Panther. Upstair is another temp. exhibition area - at present modern glass sculpture.

The building was built in 1897 and 1898 in line with the designs of Bedøich Ohmann in the neo-Renaissance style. The tower is an exact copy of the original Liberec town hall.

The museum houses a small natural science exhibit including rocks of the area, and an interesting history of North Bohemia, including photographs from the late 1800's, large loom, hussite weapons, glassware/crystal, locks/keys, jewellery, woodblocks(wallpaper design). There is also a collection of mechanical musical instruments that are mostly fully functional, the most impressive only requires a 10Kc coin and is loud enough to fill the whole museum.

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A 20 minutes tram ride from Liberec town centre will take you to Horni Hanychov (tram 2/3 - 10Kc ticket). From the tram stop you can either walk up the road to the cable car or trek through the woods. Either way it is about 1km. I think the woods was nicer...no traffic.

The Lanovka cable car has set times of departure this time of the year..on the half hour until 4pm, then on the hour until 6pm(to go up) and 7pm(last car down). But these times can change if the demand is there....so don't wonder off if you think you have 40 minutes to wait! Adult cost 100Kc return/ 50Kc child.

On the right as you go up is the ski jump area. The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships will be held in Liberec in 2009.

Jested is at 1012m, with 360deg panorama across Liberec....into Germany (on a clear day). Accommodation is available. There is a bar and restaurant. If you are going to eat there I would suggest you only get desserts or coffees.....the meals were not up to the same standard as most restaurants in Liberec and they were more expensive.

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What you can see around namesti Dr E Benese.

The square is dominated by the Town Hall(1893) which has a richly decorated facade and stained glass windows, with a 65m tower. Behind the Town Hall is the Theatre - Divadlo F.X. Saldy (M-F 10.00 - 18.00). To the west of the square along Kostelni you will see St Antonin kostel. If you keep walking you will stumble upon Sokolovske square and the C17th Wallenstein house facades. Added to my photo's is a painting of this square from 1902 and a photo of the same square now.

Most shops shut at noon on Saturday. Most restaurants and pubs are open til late.

There is even a McDonalds on the square!? But why would you bother?