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17 06, 2022

Technical monuments from our German neighbours

2023-03-21T11:31:31+01:00Categories: Hiking, Tourist destinations|Tags: , |

Significant branches of industry formed Upper Lusatia for centuries and as such left their mark on the countryside and the towns and cities. The most important economic branches were opencast lignite mining, the glass and textile industries and engineering. Imposing witnesses to this industrial culture and unique technical monuments still hint at how many people were able to secure their livelihoods and their daily lives thanks to these branches of industry. Come and discover their secrets with us!

16 04, 2020

Around the Jablonec Reservoir

2024-07-01T15:21:15+02:00Categories: The Jablonec SEA, Hiking|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Jablonec nad Nisou-Mšeno Reservoir is not only a popular place for swimming and doing sports, but also for architectural and technical points of interest. It is worth seeing the original granite dam or the giant “Fishing Rod”. So let’s go on a walk around this [...]

Délka: 6 km Převýšení: 30 m Doba: 1.5 hod.
30 12, 2019

Ještěd, a unique symbol of the region

2023-11-14T15:35:42+01:00Categories: Lookout towers and observation points, Tourist destinations|Tags: , , , , |

Ještěd is a destination for hikers and nature lovers all year round. The Ještěd transmitter (designed by architect Karel Hubáček) with its well-known mountain hotel and restaurant stands on the peak at a height of 1012 m. The structure takes the shape of a hyperboloid under rotation [...]

29 12, 2019

Bramberk

2023-04-25T09:21:07+02:00Categories: Lookout towers and observation points|Tags: , , , , |

Bramberk rises as a distinctive peak with a lookout tower to the north of the township of Lučany nad Nisou. A number of marked and unmarked tracks lead up to the tower. The somewhat strange, albeit well-established name is associated with the name of a nearby [...]

20 04, 2020

Terezínka

2020-09-07T17:53:14+02:00Categories: Lookout towers and observation points|Tags: , |

A charming cliff-top lookout (623 m above sea level) on the north-west flank of the Muchov peak, which rises above Tanvald from the south west. The cliff was a favourite site for Theresa, the wife of the owner of the Tanvald spinning mills, who had the [...]

19 04, 2020

The monuments of the Jizera Mountains

2023-03-21T15:49:30+01:00Categories: The Jizera Mountains|Tags: , |

Few other places have as many monuments and crosses recalling the sites of the unlucky fates of people from the past as the Jizera Mountains. They are a phenomenon of this landscape and discovering them has become something of a passion for some enthusiastic hikers. They [...]

9 04, 2020

The rack-and-pinion mountain railway

2023-03-21T13:22:14+01:00Categories: Other activities, Tourist destinations|Tags: , , , |

Take a ride on the unique mountain railway which has become a technical monument thanks to the rack-and-pinion system installed between its rails. The line starts in Tanvald and passes through picturesque stations, forests and crags via Harrachov and on to the Polish Giant Mountains. It [...]

8 04, 2020

The Breached Dam

2023-03-21T13:03:45+01:00Categories: The Jizera Mountains, Tourist destinations|Tags: , |

A genius loci in the middle of mountains and forests, a beautiful place with a dark past. A huge tragedy took place there more than one hundred years ago. The reservoir on the White Desná River, which was supposed to protect the mountain municipality from floods, [...]

8 04, 2020

Through a region of mountain chalets

2021-03-23T16:47:46+01:00Categories: Hiking|Tags: , , |

Charming Jizera Mountain chalets scattered along the tracks or hidden in the forests now mostly serve their owners for recreation and the care given to them means that they now delight the eye of everybody who passes. We admittedly do not know their stories, but we [...]

Délka: 11.5 km Převýšení: 335 m Doba: 3.5 hod.
29 12, 2019

The Museum of Glass and Costume Jewellery

2022-11-22T14:13:55+01:00Categories: The greatest selection of Czech costume jewellery, Monuments and culture, Museums and exhibitions, Tourist destinations|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Museum of Glass and Costume Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou is the only one of its kind in the world. Its exhibitions constitute one of the largest collections of glass in the Czech Republic, a collection of costume jewellery unique in Europe and the largest [...]

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