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Loket / Elbogen will make a great and interesting place for a short stop-over or even a longer vacation !
The castle of Loket was built at a great stategical point on top of a rock, surrounded by about 90% by the deep valley of the river Ohre / Eger and in the old times there was only 1 small natural bridge to the town.
" Heute waren wir in Elbogen das über alle Beschreibung schön liegt und sich als ein Kunstwerk von allen Seiten betrachten lässt. "
Today we have been in Loket, that is built in the most beautiful way and may be viewed from all sides...
This is what Goethe has written in his diary on july 1st, 1807.
Goethe came to Loket about 12 times - it was a distance of about 150 km south of his home in Weimar. Today it will take 4 hours maybe, in the old times it certainly was more than 1 day to travel by horse&carriage.
You will still find some traces of Goethe in Loket:
Hotel " Bily kun " (Weisses Roß / white horse), where Goethe celebrated his 74th birthday and where he proposed to a young lady named Baronesse Ulrike von Levetzow.
Goethe was 74 and the young lady was 19...
...and she refused him.
Goethe was very sad and never returned to West-Bohemia.
Ulrike von Levetzow never got married.
You may take the train to Loket or drive on road # 6 and # 20 / E 49 Leave a Comment
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Mikulov / Nikolsburg is the first town after the border between Austria and Czechia, when driving from Vienna to Brno / Brünn.
There is a great castle - shown on my picture , a big thomb that looks rather like a church and a lovely house with graffitis on main square and finally a jewish cemetery.
A visit to Mikulov may easyly be combined with a visit of Lednice , Valtice and Znojmo.
You ma take the train to Mikulov or drive on road #52 / E 461 Leave a Comment
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Novy Jicin / Neutitschein might be another interesting town for a stopover in the east of Czechia, on your way to Ostrava.
The town has about 27000 inhabitants, a lovely town-square and a lot of great buildings all over town.
One of the sidestreets, Msgr. Sramka, rather close to the big parking, is full of great Art Nouveau-buildings, like you may see them on the upper-part of my picture-combination.
You might need about half a day in order to explore all sight of this town and prices are still really low, as tourists mostly pass by without having an idea, what they are missing...
You may get to Novy Jicin by train or by car, using road #48 / E462 Leave a Comment
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Pardubice / Pardubitz is a town of 93000 inhabitants , built by the Pernstein-family in the 16th century at the confluence of the rivers Labe / Elbe and Chrudimka - about halfway between Hradec Kralove and Chrudim.
They built a great renaissance town with plenty of similarities to the architecture of Italy.Great and unique facades are found all over the old part of town, but especially on the town-square, called Pernstynovo namest.
Take a closer look for the great baroque stucco-ornaments and the big variety of facades.
The townhall of Pardubice / Pardubitz was built from 1892 - 1894 and decorated with sgraffiti by Mikolas Ales.
The townhall was recently restored, like most other buildings on the townsquare and looks really great today !
Dom U Jonase - on the townsquare opposite of the Green Gate is another great excample of a unique facade - see more pics on my link below !
When walking through Pardubice, you should go as well to " Miru " the street leading directely to the Green Gate.
About 300 meters before you get to the gate, you will see 2 great Art Nouveau-buildings on the left and on the right, before you go back to the main square is the great Art-Nouveau-theatre.
You may get to Pardubice by train or take the road # 37 from Hradec Kralove to Chrudim or road #2 from Kutna Hora. Leave a Comment
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Pribor / Freiberg is a small town, about 50 km east of Olomouc. It has a nice townsquare, like you may see them at many places in Czechia, and it would not make sense to make a stopover there, except for lunch or dinner....
....but mainly Pribor / Freiberg is well known as the birthplace of Siegmund Freud, who was born there in may 6th, 1856 in Zamecnicka 117.
Freud lived there only until he was 4, then his parents left for Vienna ( where you may still see his appartment and ordination in a museum in Berggasse 19, close to Votivkirche)
Freud came back to Pribor once in 1872 for a small vacation.
You may take the train to Pribor or drive on road # 48 / E 462.
Pribor is also the place, where you will leave the aminroad from Olomouc to Ostrava, when you intend to go the Pustevne, Koprivnice or Roznov pod Radhostem. Leave a Comment
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Pribram is a small town, about 50km south of Prague and makes a great daytrip, eventually in combination with Karlstejn.
The town of Pribram is nothing special except a very few nice buildings,but the nearby monastery Svata Hora ( the holy hill ) is one of the most visited pilgrim-churches all over Czechia.
Just click on my picture-combination and see the great ornaments of this beautiful church.
You may go to Pribram by train or by car unsing the A4
When searching for Pribram in your map in the Czech alphabet, you should keep in mind, that the 1st R has an accent on top and is listed AFTER the towns like PRUZIN... Leave a Comment
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Rakovnik is a small town, 50 km west of Prague / Prag, and I found it, when driving through the countryside.
The main attraction in my opinion was the old towngate, shown on my picture-combination.
The townsquare has also a few interesting buildings, but nothing very special.The best part of a place like this is the fact, that you are able to go for lunch and dinner at really incredible prices and also supermarkets and shops are a lot cheaper than in the big cities.
In order to get to Rakovnik, you may take the train or road # 237 Leave a Comment
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Roznov pod Radhostem / Rosenau am Radegast is a small town about 60 km east of Brno .
The major attraction of that town is a large museum of old wooden houses, that were taken down at many places all over Czechia and were rebuilt in Roznov in a way that you get the feeling to be inside an old village.
The museum consists of 3 parts that you may visit seperately or with a combination-ticket.
1)The Mill valley, consisting of different kinds of watermills and you may visit it by guided tours only, that will include demonstrations of the mills working like in the old days.
2)The wooden village is the oldest part of the museum, down in the village and it includes a great church, cemetery, a post-office, grocery, merry-go-round, beehives etc.
3)The Vallachian village up on a hill nearby, including many farmhouses, horses, sheep, geese etc.
Also the town of Roznov is nice for a little walk.
You may take the train in order to get to Roznov pod radhostem or road #35 / E 442 Leave a Comment
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Teplice / Tepliz is an important town in the north of Czechia, and almost all the trafic to Dresden is going through this town with 53000 inhabitants.
Most tourists simply pass by, but Teplice has also a few nice parks, a great castle, a casino , a few great hotels and art nouveau-facades and an important spa.
My favorite area is at "Zamezke nam" - the castle-square with the castle and castle-church (on the right of my picture).
In a small distance you may see "Erzgebirgstheater" a theatre, and "Urquell" - NOT a beer, But a spa with a well , where the water springs with a temperature of 42 degrees celsius.
Big parts of Teplice are a bit unsafe and it is always best to be careful, where to park your car and where to take a walk. Plenty of ladies offer their services there in the streets day and night. Don't pay attention to them, and they will leave you alone...
You may get to Teplice by train or by car on the main-road from Prague to Dresden. driving-time from Prague is about 2 hours. Leave a Comment
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The beautiful castle of Becov nad Teplou / Petschau is the major attraction of this small village in the west of the Czech Republic - about half way between Karlovy Vary / Karlsbad and Marianske Lazne / Marienbad.
The castle is perfectely restored and has a great park around it, where you may take a walk, while you maybe have to wait for the next guided tour.
The treasury inside the castle seemed to be very interesting, as plenty of pics of the exhibits were shown in the ticket-office.
When you walk into that small village with maybe 1000 inhabitants you may see some great buildings, like the ones on my picture.
Becov is still completely out of the area, where most foreign tourists would go and therefore prices are still rather low.
But they obviously have plenty of local day tourists.
You may take the train to Becov nad Teplou or drive on road #20 / E49 Leave a Comment
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on January 23, 2005
