Kovač: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Kovač’s history is clearly visible in the character of the village. The fortified area of Kovač lies northwest of the village centre and is characterised by a distinctive ridge lined with mature trees. On Kovač’s village square, next to the bell tower, stands a Baroque sandstone statue of Saint Isidore dating from 1737.

Culture

The statue of Saint Isidore was declared a cultural monument by the Ministry of Culture on 27 September 1996. On the outskirts of Kovač, in the direction of Butoves, a sandstone statue of Saint Charles Borromeo stands among lime trees on a tall cuboid pedestal. On a hill beside a field path towards Konecchlumí stands a Baroque chapel of the Virgin Mary. The Baroque Chapel of the Virgin Mary was built in 1730 at the expense of the farmer and former village judge Jan Jůza from Kovač. Behind Kovač, near the junction of the field paths towards Kabáty and Konecchlumí, stands a wayside shrine known as Boží muka with a sandstone balustrade.

Nature

Kovačská bažantnice is a 30.95-hectare nature reserve. It protects an old floodplain forest ecosystem with diverse woodland flora and old oak trees. Visitors to Kovačská bažantnice are asked not to pick protected plants and not to leave any litter.

In the immediate vicinity of Kovač, around 800 metres southwest of the village, lies Rybník Strašidlo, a protected area for the fire-bellied toad and its habitat. In the centre of Kovač, next to the municipal office, stands Kovačský jasan, a common ash tree with a trunk circumference of 530 cm and a height of 23 m. The Hluboký Kovač Natura 2000 site extends across the cadastral areas of Kovač and Třtěnice and protects the habitat of the fire-bellied toad. Around Kovač, the shallow, wet banks of Hluboký Kovač provide suitable habitats for amphibians, including the fire-bellied toad.

Routes

Kovač railway station is part of the IREDO integrated transport system in the Královéhradecký and Pardubický regions and is located in Zone 587. The KČT cycle route 4140 passes through Kovač. A green-marked hiking trail leads from Kovač railway station to Konecchlumí and then either to Nová Paka or into the Chlum woods.

Other places in the same destination area include Jicineves, Miletin, Stupná, Kostelec, Úlibice, Mladejov V Cechach, Žlunice and Hubálov.

For the higher-level travel overview: Jičín District.