Babylon
Zeleny kopec (Green Hill) with a look-out tower from 1831.
Budisov
The chateau built in 1446 on the foundations of a mediaval water stronghold. Its salla terrena is decorated in the Rococo style. At present only the Moravske Museum depository
with pemanent exhibition of a collection of birds and animals is available to the public within the Renaissance chateau of four two-floor wings.
The church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, reconstructed in the style of Renaissance.
Breznik
The church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, originally a Romanesque building, of wchich only the nave and the tower remain preserved.
Gloriet
A romantic-looking hunting pavilon in neo-Gothic style built around 1830.
Holoubek
A ruin of a castle on the Jihlava river. It was built in the first half of the 14th century. Its owner, Bohus Payer of Skutec, ranked among leading Moravian noblemen.
Jinosov
The chateau also called Schonwald - a sommer house built in the style of Empire, centre of the musical life of the Haugwitzs. At present it hosts a social care institute.
The first place where Czech poet
Otakar Brezina worked as a teacher.
Jasenice
A late Romanesque church of St.Clement with a tower from the 16th century.
Ketkovicky castle
Also called Levnov. A ruin of a castle built on the Oslava river in the 13th century. The area is also interesting for its termophile vegetation.
Kozlov
A ruin of a castle on the Jihlava river. It used to "guard" the surrounding houses which belonged, along with the nearby village of Kozlany, to the Trebic monastery.
Kralice nad Oslavou
Memorial of the Kralice printing house. Originally it was a Gothic stronghold wgere the Unity of the Czech Brethren had its printing office from 1578.
The most significant print emerging from there was the six-volume Bible of Kralice from 1579-1594. The present exhibition in the museum, which was founded in 1969, acquaints visitors with archaelogical finds on the site of the
former stronghold, with the prints produced by the Czech Brethren, and with other objects from the original printing office.
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A find of more than 4000 original metallic types and typographic decorations in Kralice is unique
as regards their age, number and state of preservation.
The exhibition is complemented by a wooden printing machine on which, on one´s request, a fascimille of a Bible of Kralice page can be printed.
The Bible of Kralice memorial, the first of its kind throughout the world, is devoted to the precious book. It was built in 1936.
Kravi Hora
A ruin of a castle on the Oslava river built after 1360. It served as seat of robber-barons.
Lamberk
The remains of a castle on the Oslava river built in 1370. The castle belonged to Jan Sokol of Lamberk, a notorious robber-baron, whose followers also included Jan Zizka, who later became a Hussite leader.
The castle was destroyed in 1459.
Serpentin steppe of Mohelno
A protected area of 60 hectares. Serpentin is a kind of rock whose chemical and physical qualities enable the occurence of nanistic - pygmy forms of plants.
For some species the Mohelno steppe is the northernmost locality in Europe. About 60 new species of plants and animals have been dicsovered in the area.
Pysel
A Gothic residence of landlords.
Rabstejn
A ruin of a castle on the Jihlava river. The castles of Kozlov, Holoubek and Rabstejn were in the past forcedly controlled by robber-barons.
They were destroyed in 1446 on the order of the land congress of Moravian noblemen held in Mezirici.
Sedlecky hrad
A ruin of a small Gothic castle on the Oslava river, of which only parts of walls remain preserved.
Tasov
A Baroque church of St.Peter and St.Paul. The birthplace of poet Jakub Deml, who also lived and was buried there.
Dalesice water reservoir
A multi-purpose facility comprising two water reservoirs: the main reservoir of Dalesice and the balancing one at Mohelno. The waterwork mainly supplies the Dukovany nuclear power plant with cooling
water. Beside this, it also serves as an energy producer. The reservoirs are used by tourists, anglers and for water sports. The reservoir´s main dam is 300 metres long and 8 metres wide. Its volume totals about 2 milion cubic metres.
At its highest point it is about 100 metres. The dam of the balancing reservoir is 185 metres long and some 8 metres wide. At its highest point it exceeds 48 metres. The upper reservoir´s volume is more than 127 million cubic metres,
tho lower contains over 17 millions cubic metres of water. The two reservoirs cover 598 hectares of land.
Vlci kopec (Wolf´s Hill)
Also called Heinrichslust. Hunting lodge from 1830.
Wilsonova skala rock
A rock face, also called Kufstejn according to a small castle which used to stand there.
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