Thursday, May 31, 2007

Mikulov, meeting Misa, beautiful panorama

Last day of our trip we got to see Mikulov. City famous for the Holy Hill at the background with Chapel of the Virgin Mary , the pilgrimage point. Mikulov is a small city close to the border to Austria, only 1.5 hour from Wiena. It may really surprise you with its rennesaince houses at the main square, chateau gardens, and expositions of the graphics, paintings of Dietrichstein, and wine making. All these expositions are located at the main museum at the castle.

Many people may get get the impression that since the Mikulov castle burnt down twice, one can not find here anything interesting. Please, forget this prejudice. Mikulov borrowed many exponats from Brno and also from the last descedant of Dietrichstein and light the beauty of this building (the first picture is btw view from the castle terrace).

After you saw the main part of the exhibition you may also go to the cellar to see the enormous barrel with 1010 hl.

Anyway, enough about history. In the afternoon we found a very nice restaurant U Hroznu with a beautiful view from the terrace. (Highly recommended!!), stayed here during a short storm and then got to see such amazing view on the way home.

I was incredible glad that Cecilia got to see this part of my home country! She is special and she deserve to see special things. So Tourists in Czech, please got to see some of the smaller towns, Prague is beautiful, but you may be surprised how many small cities are out there which would amazed you even more!

1 comment:

Péťa Kousalová said...

Ahojky Marcel,
koukam, ze nas to zatahlo do stejneho kouta republiky, me jen o par mesicu pozdeji - v zari. V Mikulove jsme stravili 4 noci a postestilo se nam taktez dvakrat stravit vecer U Hroznu, je to tam moc prima :o)

Celkem jsme na Morave stravili tyden, z toho cast na Lednicku a cast na Mikulovsku. Vzali jsme to sportovne - vzhledem k planu odcestovat v lednu na Kubu pouze s koly a brasnami jsme takto pojali i tento vylet - abychom vubec vedeli, jak se kolo s brasnama chova, nikdy jsme takto "nevyndrovali". V Lednici jsme byli ubytovani v kempu Apollo, prohledli si siroke okoli Lednice (a taktez absolvovali ukazky dravcu), a delali vylety do okoli, taktez do Rakouska. Projeli jsme lednicko-valticky areal, zavitali do Valtic a okoli... Po nekolika dnech jsme presidlili do Mikulova, odkud jsme taktez podnikali vyjezdy do okoli. Objeli jsme Nove Mlyny, pesky presli Palavu (sner z Dolnich Vestonic do Mikulova), pricemz jsme si ve Vestonicich prohledli archeologickou expozici, take jsme zajeli do Rakouska kouknout se na hrad Falkenstein. Byla to moc pekna dovca :-)