Strakonice

The remainder of an originally extensive landscape park established in the mid-18^th century west of the castle. Later a popular destination and promenade together with the Calvary and Zellerina hillside. In the 20th century, an outdoor cinema was built there. In 2005, the restoration and revitalization of the park within the reconstruction of the castle premises started. In the first phase, a flower rest parterre and a castle safari with Ouessant sheep, Dutch dwarf goats and Cameroon goats, ponies and a donkey were opened.

A spring with allegedly healing water below the Virgin Mary Chapel built at the end of the 18^th century. A part of the pilgrim’s destination – the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Podsrp. The complete analyses of the water in 2007 proved an increased content of radioactivity (420 Bq/l). Other indicators meet the limits for potable water. The content of nitrates (pod 1 mg/l) is far below the standard for infant water (15 mg/l). However, it is only possible to drink any water from a natural source at your own risk.

A distinct rocky outcrop with thermophilic vegetation in the west part of the town before the entrance to the town gardener’s shop, dog shelter and water treatment plant. Legend has it that it used to be an execution hill, later used for the extraction of construction material. In older pictures described under the original name: Skalní vrch – Rocky Peak.

A dominant, aesthetically distinct tree about 180 years old near the main road from Katovice to Strakonice, healed after a direct impact by lightning. It is one of the mightiest trees in Strakonice with a circumference of more than 4 m and height of almost 3 m.

The oldest and mightiest tree in Strakonice at the town cemetery with St. Wenceslas’ Church, by the road from Strakonice to České Budějovice. According to the legend, it was planted at a place where in 1504 three Jews accused of a ritual murder of a small boy were burnt to death at the order of the authority in spite of the disapproval of Vladislas II of theJagiellonian, the Czech king. Circumference of the trunk: 550 cm, height: 25 m, age: 350-400 years.

A mill-race leading from a non-existent mill known as “At the Five Wheels” through the centre of the town, creating locality Island (Ostrov). A part of the river arm around the Church of St. Margaret is led through piping. In 2005, the mill-race was revitalized and fitted with walking trails and recreational trails.

A natural axis of the Strakonice and Prácheň region, 113 km long, famous for gold mining and extraction of pearls from river pearl oysters. It is created by the confluence of Vydra and Křemelná at Čeňkova Pila in Šumava. The name is based on the Celtic word Atawa, which means “rich water”. The Podskalí educational trail goes along the river, which presents the natural and historical interesting facts concerning the river, among other things also the water-sportsmanship (rafting).

A romantic valley of the Otava at the entrance to the town with isolated rocks. Used as a trip and rest destination and resting place, now it is a town recreational zone with multilateral use (cycling path, playground for children, boating campsite). On the left bank, there was the former swimming pub and on the opposite bank there is a 4.5 m high copy of moai statue on the Zellerina Meadow at the Calvary Hill with thermophilic oak wood.

The largest town park established in 1837 in the place of a former city moat at the edge of the town with a gloriette in the Empire style for promenade concerts. Expanded by the activity of the improvement society to the existing 2.50 hectares. In 1934, renamed to Renner’s Park in honour of the local tanner, Antonín Renner (1816-1876), the greatest patron and sponsor of town greenery of that time.

A romantic spring at a full-grown spruce with a picture of the Virgin Mary, sunk in the east part of the forested hillside of the Srpská Peak. It is regularly cleaned by pupils from elementary schools in Strakonice as part of the ecological project “At the springs of live water”.