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Top 12 most beautiful mirracles of the Czech nature / 12 nejkrasnejsich prirodnich zazraku ceske republiky

The following list is definitely worth printing out or even memorize if you are planning on visiting the Czech Republic. If you were indecisive about what places to visit, your problem is solved! Here are the top 12 nature landmarks in the Czech Republic. If you want to see a picture of each of them, click here (although the text is in Czech, do not despair,their list has the same number order as mine so go by the numbers). And in case  you want to find out more about these places, just click on each one and it will link you to a more-in-depth resource.

CZ: Novinky.cz zverejnily moc hezky list 12-ti nejkrasnejsich prirodnich zazraku v Cechach. Clovek by si je mel asi vsechny zapamatovat, aby mohl nejenze imponoval sve neceske zname, ale aby je mohl vsechny v tom svem kratkem zivote navstivit a pokochat se jimi!

1. The Southern Bohemian desert in Trebonsko (Poust v Jiznich Cechach)
2.The Prokop Valley (Prokopske udoli)
3. Primeval forest in Beskydy (Prales v Beskydech) [click to continue…]

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Lednice and Valtice: are they in England, Turkey or Moravia? / Lednice a Valtice: nachazi se v Anglii, Turecku nebo na Morave?

lednice google imageThe Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is a lesser known part of the Czech UNESCO heritage, which is spread over the vast area of a beautiful Southern part of Moravia. It contains a romantic château (Lednice), a picturesque village (Valtice) and the largest park in the country. ‘Since Lednice was first passed into the hands of the House of Liechtenstein in the mid-13th century, its fortunes had been tied inseparably to those of that noble family.’  The current area of Lednice is laid out in a beautiful English garden style, covering almost 300 kilometers squared. Not only can visitors encounter unique types of trees and flowers but the park is also filled with serene ponds, luscious meadows, fancy sculptures and even replicas of ancient Greece ruins. [click to continue…]

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Travel Virtually all over the Czech Republic! / Cestujte virtualne po celych Cechach!

Cesky Krumlov flickr imageIf you are planning a trip to Czech or just have not been back for a while and would you like to reminisce in your living-room this is a good site for you. Virtual Czech (click here) allows you to travel virtually all over this beautiful country! This way you can decide which Czech  town/city is prettier to sight-see (a very hard task) or you can just visit the places where you grew up – everything over the Internet (crazy, huh?).

CZ: Jestlize se chystate na vylet do Ceske Republiky nebo jste tam zkratka jiz dlouho nezavitali a chcete si zavzpominat primo ve vasem obyvaku, tak pro vas mam prijemne prekvapeni. Pomoci Virtual Czech (kliknete zde) totiz muzete virtualne cestovat po celych Cechach. Kdo vi, mozna ze tam na tech satelitnich mapach uvidite sveho kamarada? Nebo sami sebe???

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Forget Italy…come visit the Moravian Venice! /Zapomen na Italii a pojd navstivit Moravske Benatky!

Telc /flickr image Telc, also called the “Moravian Venice” is a true pearl of Moravia, the south-east region of the Czech Republic. Reflected in the surface of peaceful ponds, the royal city was founded at the beginning of 12th century, located on the crossroads of busy merchant routes. Its very beginnings are connected with the victory of the fearless Moravian Duke Otto II who, in order to commemorate his victory, built a chapel and later also a local church with its surrounding buildings, which is the Old Town of today. Later it was bought out by the most famous Czech king, Charles IV  who later exchanged it with Jindrich of Hradec for another (probably more exciting?) castle. The Hradec family is the one who made the city as beautiful as it is today. They build the Telc castle, the water fortifications and the beautiful Gothic houses around the large marketplace. Unfortunately half of it was burnt to the ground in 1368 and later burnt some more by the Hussites who conquered the whole town except for the castle. [click to continue…]

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Bone Church: a scary masterpiece / Kostnice: desive veledilo

Bone church chandalier/ www.kostnice.cz imageKostnice (Bone church) is a small chapel located in the town of Kutna Hora. The name already uncovers the big secret: the church is a home to a lot of human bones. And when I say “a lot”, I mean A LOT: the sanctuary contains close to 70,000 human skeletons, artistically arranged to create decorations and furnishings for the church. There are only 2 questions I had when I saw all these bones in person:

1/ Why so many of them?

In 1278 the Czech king Otakar II sent one of his monks to the Holy Land in Jerusalem to bring back some of the “real” soil. The monk returned safe and sound and with a bag of Jerusalem soil over his back. Once he sprinkled it over the Bone church cemetery it became a hot burial site in the whole Europe and everyone wanted to be laid to rest pretty much there (result –>a lot of bones). [click to continue…]

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The “tiny” St. Barbara Church was supposed to be twice as big! / “Malicky” Chram Sv. Barbory mel byt 2x tak vetsi!

Church of St. Barbara / www.hrady.cz imageNot very far from Prague lies the mining town of Kutna Hora. It is definitely one of the shiniest gems of the Czech Republic and that is why it became the UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995. Thanks to the abundance of silver mines, the town became economically even more important than Prague in the 13th century. What really makes the Kutna Hora, however, is the Gothic-style, five-naved St. Barbara Church (Chram sv. Barbory) – one of the most famous churches in Central Europe. Peter Parler, one of the most known Czech architects of all times, started the construction in 1388. The building went very fast at first but when the Hussite Wars started in 1420 everything was put on hold and the temple ended up half-finished. Since the “roof” of the building was nonexistent, the common rainfall combined with the winter snow storms began to destroy the structure. [click to continue…]

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