Moravia - picture gallery
 
 
 

Cycling in Moravia

Moravia: historic map...
...and contemporary - excellent cycle roads
and good signposts for cyclists.
We start our tours here - in Litovel
Lunch in old mill
- then along Morava channel
towards old town.
Then through a reserve....
with a protected riparian forest.
We soon see the historic constructions...
...of Olomouc
Olomouc has a great deal to offer!



On gravel roads,
between two fishponds
we cycle to Tovacov -
here is the castle,



old town guesthouse

and Jewish cementary.
Futher cycling through forests
To Chropyne...



...and Kromeriz.





What about a refreshment?
Little town Napajedla

and here near Spytihnev,
is the beginning of Bat'a - Kanal





we follow the flat canalside road
- to Uherske Hradiste

here is the old Synagogue
and the Hotel.
Town Uhersky Ostrov - trail blazing
market square
and castle
in Straznice - another castle
and boat harbour near the open air museum
Moravian Slovakia - charakteristic house
and wine cellars
finish of the stage - town Hodonin
next day - across wineyards
we cycle to Breclav...

...Lednice...


and through the "garden of Europe"




to Valtice.

Wine saloon
and hotel.
next day trip can be shortened by using local train
we come first to Mikulov

then on flat roads
in the valley of Dyje/Thaya river
First to the "border market"
then we enter Austria (white stone marks the border )
quiet paths in Laa an der Thaya
leads us
to market square with an impressive town hall
and Hotel.
Try out the thermal springs there!
Local train brings you to Vienna.

 

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