Sněžné: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

Sněžné lies in a gentle valley in the Náchodská vrchovina highlands in the northeastern part of the Orlické Mountains. The elevation ranges from 540 to 738 metres above sea level. From the hill above the Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows, there are views of the surrounding area and the ridge of the Orlické Mountains.

Nature and landscape

In the vicinity of Sněžné, there are botanically interesting, wet to boggy meadows with globe flowers, orchids, spring snowflakes and primroses. Also nearby, on the left bank of the Zlatý potok, lies the Louka u Čtvrtečkova mlýna nature monument, where spring snowflakes bloom abundantly.

Hiking trails and nature trail

The Bílé lišky nature trail is a 3-kilometre circular route with 18 stations focusing on nature and local history. It begins at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows on the edge of the village, leads through the forest and a municipal avenue, and returns to the chapel. It includes information boards with tasks and play elements, including a dendrophone and an exercise wheel.

A blue-marked hiking trail also passes the Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows in Sněžné.

Cycling routes

The marked cycle route 4214 runs from Janov and Tis through Sněžné and Polom by the chapel to Olešnice v Orlických horách and is approximately 7 kilometres long. The marked cycle route 4325 runs from Sněžné through Janov and Ohnišov to Dobruška and is approximately 12 kilometres long. An easy route from Sněžné through the valley of the Zlatý potok and back begins at the Horalka chalet in Sněžné and is also suitable for children in a bicycle trailer.

Culture and history

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows was consecrated in 1892 and is an architecturally and historically significant building in Sněžné. Numerous log houses are among Sněžné’s tourist attractions. Visitors can also see a traditional former school building constructed of wood.

A linen manufactory was established in Sněžné in the second half of the 18th century and employed up to 500 home-based weavers. The former linen manufactory building No. 1 in Sněžné is a protected wooden structure. In 1961, a hoard of 2,500 white coins of Vladislaus II was found in Sněžné.

The unfinished Skutina fortress complex is one of Sněžné’s tourist attractions and formed part of the Czechoslovak border fortification system, which was built along the then border of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938. In the N-S 48 U Stodol bunker of the Skutina Fortress Museum, there is a 36-metre-deep shaft with 201 steps; approximately 9 metres of a concreted gallery are accessible underground. The site was opened to the public in 2001 as the Skutina Fortress Museum.

Local facilities

There are five bus stops in Sněžné: Sněžné-dolní, Sněžné, Sněžné-Horalka, Sněžné-Na Krahulci and Sněžné-odbočka Dobřany.

More local pages

More local pages: Tyniste Nad Orlici, Kounov U Dobrusky, Přepychy, Žďár Nad Orlicí, Polom U Potštejna, Deschney, Val U Dobrušky, Javornice.

To the higher-level travel overview: Okres Rychnov Nad Kněžnou.