Lukavec: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Lukavec combines impressive architectural history with the legacy of the poet Antonín Sova. Lukavec Chateau is a late Renaissance four-wing building with an arcaded courtyard, built on the site of an earlier Gothic fortress. It is surrounded by an extensive English-style park with ponds and a Neoclassical pavilion where Antonín Sova grew up.

Culture and History

The originally Gothic Church of St Wenceslas in Lukavec was rebuilt as a larger Baroque church in 1765. Together with the adjacent Gothic-Renaissance fortress, the late Baroque rectory, the hospital, and the Neo-Gothic crypt of the Lincker and Lilgenau families, it forms an interesting heritage zone.

The Antonín Sova Memorial House contains a permanent exhibition about the poet’s life and work. The memorial house was reconstructed and reopened to the public in July 2004. Antonín Sova spent his childhood and youth in Lukavec and the surrounding countryside, and attended primary school there.

Near Lukavec Chateau stands Hříbek, a hexagonal, two-storey Neoclassical pavilion built towards the end of the 18th century. Hříbek is located in the freely accessible chateau park of the town of Lukavec. Its exhibition includes historical photographs and documents, as well as an almost exact replica of an Art Nouveau dress worn by Antonín Sova’s wife, Marie.

The Jewish cemetery in Lukavec was established no later than before 1724 and contains around 100 gravestones; the oldest surviving one dates from 1725. The cemetery is freely accessible. At the southeastern edge of the older section stands a restored, simple stone mortuary.

Southwest of Lukavec, in open countryside on the site of a former St Roch chapel, stand the brick-built, Baroque-style St Roch wayside shrines. Following their restoration in 2010, their niches were fitted with toughened glass panels bearing printed black text about the saint, Lukavec, and the history of the structure.

Paths and Stations

The Stations of the Cross in Lukavec were fully restored in 2009; during the restoration, the original slender granite columns were replaced with columns also made of granite but more substantial. The route runs along a local road in southwest Lukavec, on the edge of the chateau park, and offers benches for resting along the way. The Stations of the Cross comprise fourteen stations and end at the St Roch wayside shrines.

The Sovova Educational Trail leads from Pacov through the municipality of Bratřice and over Stražiště Mountain to Lukavec, and from there continues to Načeradec and Velký Blaník. It is 12 km long, takes approximately 2 to 5 hours, and includes four historically themed stations. The Sovova Educational Trail is suitable for pedestrians and cyclists.

More Local Pages

More local pages: Mysletín, Ústrašín, Bohdalín, Pelhrimov, Nová Buková, Hojanovice, Humpolec, Kámen U Pacova.

To the higher-level travel overview: Pelhřimov District.