Všestary: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Všestary offers two distinctly different approaches to history with the Muzeum války 1866 and the Archeopark pravěku Všestary. The battlefield complex with the Muzeum války 1866 is located on Chlum within the municipality. The battlefield contains almost 500 monuments, forming the largest collection of funerary architecture in the Czech Republic.

History and Culture

The Muzeum války 1866 presents the conflict through the personal stories of soldiers and civilians. A mobile augmented reality experience makes artillery positions, trenches and troop movements visible in the battlefield landscape. Guided tours of the exhibition and battlefield, with commentary, can be booked.

The Church of the Most Holy Trinity is a protected cultural monument. As a Neoclassical church with a Gothic-Renaissance tower, it is a landmark of Všestary and its surroundings. The present church was built in 1842–1843 after the previous church, with the exception of its tower, had been demolished.

Všestary was founded by the Melounka stream and on an old trade route connecting Hradec Králové with Hořice and Jičín. In the municipality, the Lesní divadlo Chlum offers theatre and music programmes. According to local tradition, it was founded in the early 1920s as a venue for amateur theatre performances.

Archaeology

There is evidence of prehistoric settlement in Všestary. The Archeopark pravěku Všestary includes a main exhibition on prehistory, a three-storey exhibition with a large model of prehistoric landscapes and human settlements, an outdoor exhibition, and examples of prehistoric buildings, including a Neolithic and an Eneolithic house. There is also an exhibition on domestic animals.

The archeopark regularly organises programmes on a variety of themes that vividly familiarise visitors with life in prehistoric times.

Cycling Routes and Location

The 20 km-long “Chlum přes Hoříněves” cycling route starts at Všestary railway station and leads via Rozběřice back to Všestary. The 26 km-long “Dlouhý okruh bitvou r. 1866” starts in Všestary, leads to Chlum and returns to Všestary via Rozběřice. An educational cycling route leads from Hradec Králové to the Archeopark pravěku Všestary and stops at archaeological sites.

Všestary is located approximately 7 km west of Hradec Králové on road I/35. The Archeopark pravěku Všestary can be reached on foot from Všestary railway station in 15 minutes.

Further Attractions

The swimming pool in Všestary offers swimming lessons for children from six months of age through to competitive swimmers.

More local pages: Librantice, Hrádek, Zábědov, Lodín, Nechanice, Chlumec Nad Cidlinou, Myštěves, Nový Bydžov

For the higher-level travel overview: Hradec Králové District.