There is no nicer place for a view of Jablonec nad Nisou than the hill known as Petřín. The Jablonec basin opens up perfectly and visitors can see the entire city with all its significant structures, including the reservoir, and a significant part of the Jizera [...]
Císařský kámen has become a popular hiking destination in recent years. The new lookout tower has stood on the site since the autumn of 2018. The top of the lookout tower is equipped with plaques to identify the visible peaks and dominant features in the environs [...]
A wonderful place both for families with children and for those who want to spend some time among animals, to try the local goat and sheep milk delicacies or relax in a bead craft workshop. In the summer season, you can catch a ride on the [...]
Even though it has not been possible to come across a functioning glassworks in the middle of our mountains for almost a century, the places where they once stood are so magical that you often feel as if the master glassmakers had only just left the [...]
The neo-gothic Sychrov Château, which served as a residence of the originally French House of Rohan, has been used as a setting for numerous filmed fairy tales such as Goldilocks or the Immortal Aunt. The history of the place where the château is now located stretches [...]
A walk through the city while still surrounded by greenery… The route, which avoids busy areas, will appeal to mothers and fathers with prams. Horní nám. (Letní kino) – Máchův park – Vrchlického sady – přehrada – plavecký bazén – Mánesova ul. a zpět [...]
The President's Lodge (Prezidentská chata) is an original timbered building dating from 1928 which provides mountain-themed accommodation at an altitude of 850 m above sea level on a ridge of the Jizera Mountains. The famous wooden mountain chalet has undergone comprehensive reconstruction, which returned it to [...]
The highest located reservoir in the Czech Republic lies on the Black Nisa, 3 km to the north of Bedřichov and it has been part of the surrounding mountain countryside for one hundred years. The Bedřichov Water Reservoir (sometimes also called the reservoir on the Black Nisa or [...]
The Šámal Chalet, originally the Clam-Gallas hunting lodge, was used by Dr Přemysl Šámal, the Chancellor to President T. G. Masaryk, during the First Republic. The interior was lined with larch and the suite and bathroom were appointed to look identical to those in the Czernin [...]
The preserved ruins of Frýdštejn Castle, which is especially known to Czechs from the filmed fairy tale of Princess Jasněnka and the Flying Cobbler, are located at the edge of a village of the same name, just twenty minutes’ drive from Jablonec. This typical guard castle, [...]