Dolní Cerekev: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

In Dolní Cerekev, nature, trails and local history come together.

Nature

In the wider regional area of Dolní Cerekev, Přední skála is a natural monument that was first placed under protection on 3 May 1984. In the wider regional area of Dolní Cerekev, Přední skála protects remarkable geological and geomorphological features as well as remnants of mixed forest.

In the wider regional area of Dolní Cerekev, the natural monument encompasses near-natural fir-beech forests, predominantly acidophilous beech forests, numerous cavity-nesting birds and communities dependent on deadwood. The protected distinctive geomorphological features include frost cliffs on both sides in the form of rock towers, cryoplanation terraces and partly bowl- or mushroom-shaped rock overhangs, as well as the rock vegetation associated with them.

In the wider regional area of Dolní Cerekev, a rock outcrop at Přední skála is 11 m high and 22 m wide and offers views of the surrounding hills and settlements of the Čeřínek Nature Park.

On the Trail

The 6.5 km-long Čeřínek Educational Trail is a circular route: it starts and ends at the same place and can be walked in either direction. The 14 stations present the geomorphological, botanical and zoological features of this area.

The excursion from Dolní Cerekev to Čeřínek is marked with blue and red trail signs. In the wider regional area of Dolní Cerekev, the Čeřínek Educational Trail reaches the rocky summit of the Přední skála Natural Monument at an elevation of 712 m.

Culture

The museum exhibition of the municipality of Dolní Cerekev is housed in the birthplace of the composer Karel Pádivý. The Dolní Cerekev exhibition presents the lives of four personalities who originated from the town: Antonín Ptáček, František Prášil, Karel Pádivý and Blahoslav Smíšovský.

The Dolní Cerekev exhibition can be visited by prior arrangement at telephone number 567 315 014. At a crossroads in the built-up part of Dolní Cerekev stands a column with a statue of Saint John of Nepomuk.

The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene was probably built in the middle of the 13th century; original masonry has been preserved in part of the western nave wall up to a height of approximately 4 m.

Getting Around

A bus stop is located near Dolní Cerekev railway station.

More local pages: Jezdovice, Velký Beranov, Smrčná, Černíč, Hojkov, Rantířov, Horní Myslová, Řásná

To the higher-level travel overview: Jihlava District.