As we are spending 5 days in Brno during New year%26#39;s holiday, we are interested for a short trips around Brno. We%26#39;ve already seen Bratislava and Vienna, so we olan to visit a interesting points near Brno. I%26#39;ve found very interesting Slavkov (Auterlitz), Lednice, maybe Telč. Is it possible to visit it during the winter season (castels there), or they are closed?
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What is really good in the winter is the Moravsky Karst, and the underground river (which is open throughout the winter - I have been when it was -20 and a metre of snow before)
www.moravskykras.net/en/moravian-karst.html
(look at the Punkva caves section in particular)
Your little one will probably enjoy it as well, and it is only about 20 minutes by train - you might need to call before and reserve a ticket as it is hugely popular, more so in the summer.
Here is some information in an earlier thread: tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g274707-i96-k216…
As you are based in Brno itself it should be much easier - there are regular trains to Blansko. Check on www.idos.cz
Slavkov is all very well for the history, but there isn%26#39;t much there to keep you entertained - the site of the battle is, as you would imagine, just a very large field, and the town of Slavkov is a bit scruffy. If it is a cold and grey day, you might be a bit disappointed.
Lednice/Valtice - UNESCO world heritage sites, but I don%26#39;t believe the chateaux at Lednice/Valtice are open lednice.cz/en/…
In Brno itself there should be plenty to keep you busy - www.brno.cz/index.php?lan=en%26nav01=2222
such as the Špilberk castle, cathedral, etc. Otherwise there is the zoo www.zoobrno.cz which is next to the lake - usually frozen by now, but global warming and all that...
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I would definitely recommend Telc. It is a very pretty place with a majestic town square.
I was actually a bit disappointed with Lednice. Not that there is anything wrong with it - it just does not compare to other places in the Czech Republic in my opinion.
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I know what you mean about Lednice - coming from England it doesn%26#39;t really look that out of the ordinary as it looks a bit like an Oxford/Cambridge college, and isn%26#39;t a patch on somewhere like Blenheim Palace, for example. However in a Czech context it does seem extraordinary - Valtice is very grand, though. I think the fact that it is Europe%26#39;s largest landscaped gardens that got it onto UNESCO%26#39;s list.
It is really for a summer visit - the minaret is quite something, as is the story that goes with it.
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Thank you!
And I have a question about Mikulov - do you recomend it?
As we are travelling from south (from Zagreb, Croatia via Vienna), Mikulov and south Moravia is on our way to Brno. As I understood, it is a wine region. Is it worthed to stay in Mikulov and visit one of the wine cellars or do you have recomendetions for another place in south Moravia, where we could stay for lunch on our way back home?
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How could I forget Mikulov? It is a beautiful little place, right on the Austrian border. Stay at the Hotel Tanzberg …ubytovani-hotel.eu/accommodation-Mikulov.htm - excellent food and accommodation. For a small place there is a surprising amount to do - it has an ancient Jewish history so there is a medieval Jewish cemetery which is sometimes open to the public, and there is a synagogue/museum just opposite the aforementioned museum.
Otherwise there is the wine museum in the castle, the Dietrichstein Sepulchre and the %26#39;Svatý Kopeček%26#39; which is worth a walk up to the top - you need plenty of energy for that, though! Every time I go back I find something new - it is a great place.
www.mikulov.cz/tourism/monuments-and-sights/
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We shall stop in Mikulov, then, probably for 1 day on our way back home.
And if a can say, off topic, I really bealive in every recomandation about Czech Rep. because in every place we%26#39;ve been, which we were recomanded, it was really a great experience and we had a great time (Prag for several times, Plzen, Ceske Budejovice, C. Krumlov, Hlouboka/Vltavi, Olomouc, Ostrava...). Now we shall try Brno and trips around it (untill now, we were just passing near the town, but never entered it).
Thanks once again!
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Well I hope you enjoy it - I will tell you honestly that as probably with anywhere else, summer is the best time to visit, but I am sure you will have a great time. Keep your day trips simple - I would do the Blansko Caves and Mikulov in addition to Brno - maybe the zoo as well. All are easily reached by public transport - I am presuming you won%26#39;t have your car in Brno. If you do, park it at your hotel and leave it there except to do your day trips as a) you won%26#39;t need it as public transport is so good, and it is mostly all walkable and b) it is not a car-friendly city. You will see why when you get there. To do your day trips, Mikulov is about 1.5 hours by bus, or c. 40 minutes by car, and Blansko is c. 20 minutes by train, then another 20 minutes by bus to the caves - about the same by car. Telc is nice, but a but further - about 2 hours by car, but if you go there go through Třebíč, which is another UNESCO world heritage site.
Have fun!
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