Best Places to Eat

¨ Pavillon (p232)

¨ Veselá 13 (p247)

¨ Restaurant Coqpit (p238)

¨ Sojka & Spol (p241)

¨ Svatováclavský Pivovar (p252)

Best Places to Sleep

¨Hostel Mitte (p230)

¨Hotel Templ (p240)

¨Hotel Mario (p245)

¨Hotel Lahofer (p247)

¨ Penzión Na Hradě (p252)

When to Go

Apr Trees bud and flowers bloom in pretty towns like Olomouc.

Jul Warm, sunny days are perfect for urban strolls or hiking or biking the countryside.

Sep Toast the grape harvest with new wine in Valtice or at the Znojmo wine festival.

MoraviaWhy Go?The Czech Republic’s easternmost province, Moravia, is yin to Bohemia’s yang. If Bohemians love beer, Moravians love wine. If Bohemia is about towns and cities, Moravia is all rolling hills and pretty landscapes. The capital, Brno, has the museums, but the northern city of Olomouc has captivating architecture. The lesser-visited south is dominated by vine-yards and, naturally, wine-drinking day-tipplers. This was the former stomping ground of some of the wealthiest families of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and you can still see the glint of this old money at former noble piles in Mikulov, Valtice and Lednice.

Includes ¨Brno ........................... 227Telč ............................. 235Třebíč ......................... 237Mikulov ....................... 238Valtice-Lednice .......... 244Znojmo ....................... 246Olomouc .................... 248Kroměříž .................... 254

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1 Vila Tugendhat (p230) Appraising the value, aesthetically speaking, of a functionalist masterwork.

2 Mikulov Wine Trail (p240) Hiking, biking or simply sipping your way through the hills and dales of southern Moravian wine country.

3 Holy Trinity Column (p248) Admiring the intricacies of Central Europe’s most riveting piece of baroque statuary.

4 Telč Chateau (p235) Taking in the palatial splendour amid the country’s

most perfectly preserved Renaissance townscape.

5 Lednice Chateau (p244) Gawking at the magnificent folly of the Liechtenstein family’s ancestral spread, complete with a mock minaret.

Moravia Highlights