North Bohemia is a picturesque and varied region of low hills, sandstone rocks and various small lakes. Traditional villages are also well-preserved here and there. Our hotel is located just 60 miles from Prague airport near the large Macha lake. A beautiful ruin of the Bezdez castle with extensive marshy areas below dominates the skyline in the east of the lake.
There are about 250 gardens and parks in Prague and many more in the vicinity of the city. Czechs have always been rather fond of parks and thus not many gardens have been preserved to these days. Luckily they belong to the best ones. This short tour explores the finest gardens of Prague, romantic parks and few other places outside the Czech capital.
Our centrally located hotel is an ideal base for walks...
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...
This spectacular tour visits four best preserved historical towns of Austria and Czech Republic. Vienna gained its importance under Habsburgs who moved their seat from Prague to Vienna at the beginning of 18th century. Prague has several smaller gardens packed around Prague castle while Vienna´s large gardens of Belvedere and Schönbrunn are grandious and built outside the city center. These two famous...
Slovakia is a small country that comprises large proportion of West Carpathian mountains, the backbone of Eastern Europe that curves east and then south in an arc through Ukraine to Romania. Lowlands and hills along the southern border already belong to the warm region of Pannonia.