Hradec Králové Region: 10 places worth a day trip
Pinsko lists 10 places in the Hradec Králové Region: 4 nature spots, 2 beer stops, 2 historic sites, 1 spa town and 1 mushroom area.
Highlights include Prachov Rocks, Clock Brewery and Braun's Bethlehem.
Quick answers
- Which places in the Hradec Králové Region need booking?
- You don't need to book ahead for any of them.
- What's seasonal in the Hradec Králové Region?
- Seasonal: Prachov Rocks (Apr–Nov), Adršpach-Teplice Rocks (Apr–Nov) and Orlické Mountains (Jun–Oct). The others aren't seasonal, but check opening hours before you go.
- How far is the Hradec Králové Region from Prague and Brno?
- By car, Pinsko's places here are 1 h 20 min–3 h 5 min from Prague and 2 h 5 min–4 h 10 min from Brno, without traffic.
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- Braun's Bethlehem
Baroque sculptures carved straight into sandstone boulders in a forest near Kuks: in the 1720s Matthias Bernard Braun cut a Nativity scene, hermits and saints into the rock for Count Franz Anton Sporck. A rare open-air gallery, on UNESCO's tentative list.
- Třebechovice Nativity Museum
Home of Probošt's mechanical nativity scene, carved by a local carpenter and his friends over some forty years and still set in motion by its original mechanism – a national cultural monument, with some 400 more nativity scenes around it.
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- Prachov Rocks
A sandstone rock town near Jičín with narrow gorges and dozens of viewpoints.
- Source of the Elbe
The Elbe rises on a Krkonoše meadow at 1,386 m and flows about 1,100 km to the North Sea; nearby it drops over the Labe waterfall.
- Sněžka
At 1,603 m the highest mountain in the Czech Republic, on the Polish border in the Krkonoše. A cable car runs up from Pec pod Sněžkou.
- Adršpach-Teplice Rocks
A labyrinth of sandstone towers up to 100 m tall, with a boat ride on a small lake and narrow gorges.