Doubravník: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Culture and History

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a late Gothic three-nave hall church built between 1535 and 1557. It contains a valuable Renaissance pulpit and a rare Baroque organ by Jan Výmola dating from 1760. The historic centre of Doubravník is designated as an urban conservation area.

The town's historic features also include the Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene on Bozinka, built in 1692, and the Mitrovský Crypt with 19 cast-iron sarcophagi. In Křížovice, a district of Doubravník, Galerie z ruky organises major cultural events several times a year.

Nature and Trails

The Doubravník area includes the Sokolí skála Nature Reserve near the settlement of Prudká. The Doubravnicko region is part of the Svratecká hornatina Nature Park.

Prudká is home to a covered wooden footbridge intended for pedestrians and forming part of the international Prague–Vienna cycling route in the EuroVelo network. It was built in 1899 by master carpenter Jan Nejez from Železné for the workers of the nearby C. M. Kopřiva paper mill and has been protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic since 1994.

Educational Trail III connects Pernštejn Castle with the town of Doubravník and leads from Pernštejn via Sejřek to Doubravník along a route marked in green.

Traditions and Local Life

Doubravnické hody is a traditional festival held regularly on the Sunday of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. It includes a procession in traditional costumes, a maypole ceremony, the ortel ritual and dancing beneath the maypole.

Pivovar Doubravník operates a taproom at its premises in Doubravník.

In the Tišnovsko area, regular public transport services are provided by a single-track railway line and buses operated as part of the transport system organised by the South Moravian Region.

Other places at the same administrative level:Mokrá-Horákov, Moravské Knínice, Bratčice, Žabčice, Černvír, Babice U Rosic, Ketkovice, Újezd U Tišnova.

For the higher-level travel overview: Brno-Venkov District.