MiniEuroRando 2010

Town Krnov is an ideal starting point for cognition of mountain area of Jeseníky and also Osoblažsko lowland. Border location of Krnov is also a big opportunity for visits to polish towns and villages, rich in cultural monuments and in a lot of tourist rest areas. Fates of places around the border were for centuries linked together, and the border was not formed until Austria-Prussian wars in the middle of eighteenth century. The border now, after the entrance of both countries into Shengen territory, stopped being an obstacle in cognition of beauty and wealth of this region.

Mountain-range Jeseníky is the second highest mountain-range in the Czech Republic, it is touristicly attractive, and it is one of the most significant areas of tourist travel located in protected landscape area. Mountain tops there enter the subalpine zone with alpine openings without continuous forest stands, which gain upon the top of the highest mountain of Hrubý Jeseník - Praděd (1492m). The whole area is interwoven with tourist paths and sport centres where you can spend nice whiles, rest and regenerate. Here can be found many charming places such as national park Rejvíz, healing springs in spa Jeseník or in Karlova Studánka or karst area of cave Na Pomezí, which arose in period of older Palaeozoic. Certainly, it is worth to visit also Rešov waterfalls, which belong to the most beautiful in the Czech Republic. Very interesting are as well dead volcanoes in outskirts of Bruntál.

For history lovers are great opportunity residencies in foothills, town and religious architecture in very Krnov or castles in Bruntál, Slezské Rudoltice, Linhartovy or in Velké Losiny. Medieval paintings in the Holy Spirit and in St. Benedict’s church in Krnov catch the interest of both, experts and laics. To local unique monuments belongs also Jewish synagogue in Krnov or Jewish cemetery in Osoblaha. Among technical curiosities rank also narrow gauge railway from Třemešná ve Slezsku to Osoblaha. This railway became with its sight-seeing steam train welcome tourist attraction of every summer season.
Practically untouched nature, fresh air, gorgeous landscape sceneries in connection with rich cultural heritage make from this region an ideal place for cognition and relaxation.

Honorary presidium of MiniEuroRando meeting

Dear touristic friends,

our country belongs in Europe among the middle-sized but we are convinced that according to touristic scale it is vasty. It has very broken woody surface and is almost whole de-limited by boundary mountains edges. On its territory are situated hundreds of important as well as small cultural monuments. Our Czech Tourist Club celebrated last year already 120 years since its foundation and only one year younger is our reputable system of tourist markings. Czechia lies in the centre of Europe so that it is to us not peerless far from any furthest periphery of this continent.

In the year 2006 we tried on the host role in all-European tourist meeting EuroRando in České Budějovice. For year 2010 we decided for organization of MiniEuroRando, which is destined above all for our neighbours and for middle Europe states. But we would like invite all people we succeed to reach. For all these people we have chosen the edge of mountain-range Jeseníky with centre in the town famous for organ manufacture – in Krnov. Together with representatives of regional and local self-government we prepare for you not only hiking tours and sightseeing tourism but also unconventional and adrenalineful forms of time in nature, excursions to production workspaces and homeland studied and folklore meetings with attendance of ensemble of local Greek minority.    

Come stay to one small and boundary region of Czechia. To the region that wants to prepare large tourist, cultural as well as social experiences for you. 

For the honorary presidium
PhDr Jan Stráský, president of KČT

Dear friends of cognition of new tourist regions and their beauty, I would like you to accept a kind invitation into foothills of Jeseníky and into visit of Krnov and its surroundings.

There are places you don’t find in the offer of travel agencies and that cannot be proud of millions of visitors during the season, but, nevertheless, they are enormously rich in natural beauties, in busy history, well-documented by many sights, and in high-quality services provided to visitors. Among these places belong without doubt Silesian Krnov and its surroundings.

MiniEuroRando 2010 is an opportunity to make you acquainted with this interesting locality, which connects advantages of mountain hiking with cognition of residences not only in north-eastern part of the Czech Republic but also in Polish Silesia.

The promoters of this meeting are prepared to offer you the best and most interesting from all possibilities of frontier region Krnovsko and we believe that you also will join people who fall in love with our scenic country.

We are looking forward to your visit
Renata Ramazanová, mayoress of Krnov

Moravian-Silesian Region – target and paradise of tourists

Moravian-Silesian Region may show off beautiful nature, to which inherently fit in the north of Moravia mountain-range Jeseníky, full of contrasts and variety of local wild nature and wildness. It is a place of often virginal nature and it is a tourist and bikers paradise. This place charms people by plenty of footpaths, cycling and ski routes. Into their own come also winter sports lovers because in Jeseníky remains snow at longest from the whole Czech Republic. In every season of year is the mountain-range Jeseníky different and otherwise extraordinary.
To the Moravian-Silesian Region inherently belongs another mountain-range: Beskydy. This mountain-range is a green corner in the east of the Czech Republic with fresh nature full of beauties. Mountain-range Beskydy is full of rare wooden churches and wooden architecture. Traditional as well as adrenalineful sports of all kinds may be found around every corner and they offer impressive adventure. Mountain-range Beskydy becomes very attractive destination for winter and summer sports. 

The two mountain areas mentioned above are supplemented by landscape Poodří with river flood-plain of river Odra. Around this river are situated three significant listed reservations (Nový Jičín, Příbor and Štramberk) and many chateaus and castle ruins.  

In Moravian-Silesian Region can you also see plenty of technical sights which arise thanks to industrial history of this region and which induce so extraordinary and specific character of Moravian-Silesian Region. Our country is also famous for its golf courses. And last but not least: In our region is highly developed and very popular balneology. For interest let’s mention the biggest spa resorts in this region as for example Darkov, the most modern spa of Czechia Klimkovice or unique Karlova Studánka with the cleanest air in middle Europe.
It’s possible to say that Moravian-Silesian Region is a charming corner of the Czech Republic. You can find here virgin nature, unlimited opportunities for sport enjoyment, relaxation, folk-memory, culture and also boundless entertainment. All of it in the northeast of the Czech Republic...

Come here to see it.
Ing. Jiří Vzientek, vice hetman of the Moravian-Silesian Region

Dear tourism friends,

I would like to invite you to MiniEuroRando to the Czech Republic to the Moravian-Silesian Region to town Krnov and its close and distant surroundings.

The Czech Tourist Club have prepared for you a week of active tourism with cognition of natural, technical as well as historical interesting places of this European microregion.

According to you own interest and choice can visit you for example the highest mountain of Moravia – Praděd, 1492 m, or walk along waterfalls in valley of Bílá Opava situated in lovely protected landscape area Jeseníky. You can take a ride throughout Osoblažsko (Osoblaha surroundings) by historical narrow-track train or visit a pearl among chateaus – chateau in Hradec nad Moravicí.

All the time you will be guided by skilled tourism leaders.

We look forward to you, come to us to see this interesting part of Europe.
Ing. Břetislav Boháč, president of Moravian-Silesian KČT