Brno Off The Beaten Path Tips by globetrott Top 5 Page for this destination

Znojmo / Znaim - south-west of Brno

Znojmo / Znaim is a small town of 39.ooo inhabitants and mainly famous for its wine and for its pickeled cucumbers ( the famous Znaimer Gurkerl )
Znaim is just about 35km south-west from Brno / Brünn.
On my picture you see the theatre of Znojmo.
There is also a great town-square and the lovely tower of the townhall, lots of great buildings and the castle.

1-2 hours should be enough to explore the city, especially when you are lucky to catch the small sight-seeing-train getting you to all places of interest.

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Please click here in order to see Znoimo / Znaim on a map :
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Valtice / Feldgrub - south of Brno / Brünn

Valtice castle is about 30 km south of Brno / Brünn.
The castle still needs a lot of restorations inside, but it has already a nice hotel in the left wing of the castle :
Hotel Hubertus

and inside the castle you may taste the local wines in a big wine-cellar or take a guided tour ( BUT photography is forbidden inside the castle !)
A visit to Valtice castle may easily be combined with Lednice-castle, situated in a distance of just about 7 km.

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Lednice / Eisgrub castle - south of Brno / Brünn

Lednice / with the old german name Eisgrub is a really great and beautiful castle, where you may even take photographs inside the castle against a small fee !
You may only take a GUIDED tour through the castle and there are 2 different tours - each of them is about 1 hour
That way you might need almost the whole afternoon for the castle and the big park around it.

Lednice is about 75 km north of Vienna and about 50 km south of Brno / Brünn .

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Lysice - a great castle north of Brno / Brünn

Lysice is in a distance of about 25 km north of Brno / Brünn, and it is one of the best castles I have seen in Bohemia, and hard to find in any guidebook...

Lysice castle once belonged to Erwin Dubsky, an early globetrotter of the 19th century and a big part of the furniture and decorations in the castle still remind of his time as an admiral and world-traveller.
My favorite was the japanese saloon !

The library of Marie von Ebner Eschenbach is certainly one of the highlights of the tour though the castle.
Ebner-Eschenbach was born as countess Maria Dubska, niece of Edwin Dubsky .

Photography is allowed INside the castle, against a small extra-fee
You will find plenty of infos and pics on my Lysice-page !
Just click on the link below !

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Mikulov / Nikolsburg - south of Brno / Brünn

Mikulov / Nikolsburg is one of the places, where you may cross the border to Austria, when driving to Vienna.

There is a great castle (seen on my picture ), a big thomb that looks rather like a church, a lovely house with graffitis and a jewish cemetery and a lot of baroque buildings.
In Mikulov you may see the most important things, including the castle-garden within about 1-2 hours

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Rajec castle - 25km north of Brno / Brünn

Rajec castle is about 25 km north of Brno / Brünn.
Rajec castle is quite a large building with the big castle in the middle and wide buildings on each side around a great park in the centre.

You have to park your car outside and it takes a few minutes untill you get to the castle.
The opening times of the castle are as follows :

April, September and October :
09.00a.m.-12.00 and 01.00-04.00p.m.
May till August . open 1 hour more till 05.00p.m.

Closed every Monday !!

last guided tour is 1 hour before closing time.

On saturdays in the morning, there will be no tours in case that a wedding takes place there.

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You may click here in order to
see a map of Rajec by
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And here you may get to my Rajec-page !
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Pernstejn - 40 km north-west of Brno / Brünn

Pernstejn castle is 40 km north-west of Brno / Brünn and dates back to the 13th centrury

.The castle is open to the public :

April 9.00a.m.-03.00p.m.
May,June 9.00a.m.-04.00p.m.
July,August 9.00a.m.-05.00p.m.
September 9.00a.m.-04.00p.m.
October 9.00a.m.-03.00p.m.

EXCLUDING a lunchbreak of 1 hour at 12.00 noon !!!

Guided tours only :
Adults: 40,- Kc
Children: 5,- Kc
Students: 20,- Kc

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You may click here in order to
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or you may click here in order to see
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Telc - 90 km west of Brno / Brünn

When you are in the area of Brno / Brünn, make sure you will also see Telc / Tetsch as it is one of the most beautiful and most interesting small towns in Czechia.
The triangle townsquare is totally surrounded by great baroque buildings, 95% of them were recently restored and are part of the UNESCO-World-heritage !!

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Telc is on the very left of the map !
You may click here to see my Telc-page !
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Koprivnice - for all fans of Tatra-automobiles

Maybe 150 km north-east of Brno / Brünn you may visit a really great museum of Tatra-automobiles, planes and even a train.
My favorite part of the museum was the section with the huge 4x4 trucks and expedition-vehicles, beeing able to explore even the remotest places on earth. In the centre of my picture-combination you may see one of them - only 2 of that type were built for an expedition by Czech scientists across Asia in the late 50s.

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Zelena Hora - 50km north-west of Brno / Brünn

Zelena Hora is one of the most famous examples of the so-called "Baroque Gothic"-style.
A formerly Gothic church was rebuilt and re-decorated in baroque style.
The whole of the church follows certain rules and symbolisms :
most of the rooms and ornaments have 5 edges, only the outside wall of the cemetery has 10 edges.
The church was consecrated to the National saint of the Czech Republic :

Jan Nepomucky / Johann Nepomuk

He was thrown into the Moldau-river from Charle's bridge in Prague in may 16th, 1393.
The legends says, that he was not willing to tell the king Wenzel IV any secrets, his wife told him during the confession.

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a map of Zdar nad Sazavou by
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Take the road 353 in the north of Zdar nad Sazavou, Zelena Hora is there at the end of the village !

And here you may see my VT-page about Zelena Hora
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