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Garden walks from Moravia to Bohemia
Czech Republic with its wealth of historical monuments should also have many historical gardens. Indeed, there were many in the past. Some were swept away by era of romantic parks and quite large proportion vanished during the Communist rule when gardens were totally neglected.
Luckily the gradual change came and only now you can see the work on several important Czech gardens almost complete. Parks are no less interesting and we will see a few large parks that have very good reputation. The gardens are mostly not large by size and not so intricate or ornamental as those in south of Europe. But they are in many cases well preserved and show the original ground plan typical for countries north of Alps.
Fact file
Czech Republic
9 days | hotels
dates/season: late June to September
ground cost: tba | single room: tba
guide: tba
airport: Vienna in, Prague out
group size: 10 – 20
Itinerary in brief
D1 Arrival to Vienna and transfer to the Czech Republic
D2 Lednice castle, garden and park, 19th century man-managed Lednice-Valtice area
D3 Kroměříž Garden of Flora, Bučovice castle garden
D4 Transfer to Český Krumlov via Mikulov town and castle, Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou garden, town of Telč
D5 Český Krumlov castle, Kratochvíle garden, Červený Dvůr park
D6 Transfer to Prague via Dobříš castle and private gardens at Okoř
D7 Prague castle gardens and city tour (by foot and back by tram)
D8 Lesser Quarter gardens (by foot)
D9 Departure from Prague
Highlights
great selection of historical gardens behind former Iron Curtain
formal renaissance, baroque, mannerist and classical gardens
romantic landscaped parks
two large-scale park landscapes (15 – 16th and 19th century)
one important garden each day
four star hotels
samples of traditional local cuisine
mostly very easy walking
