Ralsko: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

In the Ralsko Nature Reserve, the 696-metre-high Ralsko peak dominates the landscape.

Nature

The nature reserve encompasses rocks, scree areas and rubble forests, predominantly beech forests with lush undergrowth. Vranovské skály is a natural monument designated in 1993, covering an area of 17.92 hectares. The rock city, situated on a slope, consists of calcareous sandstone; its most significant rock is Juliina vyhlídka.

The protected area of Děvín and Ostrý covers 33.1 hectares. This natural monument includes tunnels where several bat species overwinter.

History and culture

In Kuřívody stands the Church of Saint Gall, a single-nave Baroque building from 1733–1734, created by rebuilding an older Gothic church. In 2011, two layers of medieval wall paintings were identified there. The older layer of wall paintings depicts a sky with stars and constellations using simple reddish-brown lines.

Stohánek preserves the remains of a castle built on an isolated rock and is accessible via a steep staircase. The sandstone sculpture “Forgotten Home” in Kuřívody commemorates the villages that disappeared in Ralsko. The Ralsko Information Centre is located in a historically significant building of the former vicarage on the grounds of a church.

Things to do

The “BITVY 1866 U KUŘÍVOD A MNICHOVA HRADIŠTĚ” educational trail is also suitable for cyclists. Cycle route No. 7 is 27.1 km long and suitable for trekking bikes and mountain bikes; it starts and ends in Kuřívody.

Other local destinations: Stráz Pod Ralskem, Skalice U České Lípy, Kozly U České Lípy, Vrchovany, Beškov, Chlum U Dubé, Chotovice U Nového Boru, Luka.

For the higher-level travel overview: Okres Česká Lípa.