Regions
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České středohoří
A range of volcanic cones along the Labe — steep short climbs, steppe slopes, orchards and a castle ruin on every second hilltop.
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Kokořínsko
A quiet sandstone plateau of canyons, pine woods and rock villages between the Labe and Máchův kraj — flat walking above, cool gorges below.
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Polabí
The flat, warm heart of Bohemia along the Labe — pine woods on sand, fertile fields, and easy kilometres between river towns.
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Podblanicko
Rolling farm-and-forest country around the two Blaník hills, where the legendary knights sleep — quiet mid-Bohemian walking at its most typical.
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Český ráj
The country's oldest protected landscape — sandstone rock towns, basalt cones and castle silhouettes between Jičín and Turnov.
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Krušné hory
A 130 km ridge wall above the northwest border — bleak beautiful plateaus, mining towns with UNESCO history, and long days with big views south over the basin.
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Máchův kraj
Pond-and-pine lowlands around Máchovo jezero with Bezděz's twin-towered silhouette — flat trails, sandstone edges and literary romance.
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Okolí Prahy
The day-hike belt of the capital — river canyons, forested ridges and rocky valleys that start and end at a tram or commuter train.
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Brdy
Half a century of military closure left an empty forest highland an hour from Prague — opened in 2016, still the loneliest walking in central Bohemia.
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Vysočina
The broad hill spine between Bohemia and Moravia — granite tors in the woods, Telč's UNESCO square, and honest rolling kilometres.
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Český kras
Limestone canyons and quarry lakes between Prague and Beroun — Karlštejn's crowds, Koněprusy caves, and surprising wild corners in between.
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Třeboňsko
A man-made water world of Renaissance fishponds, canals and pine woods on sand — flat trails on old dams under four-hundred-year-old oaks.
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Chebsko
The far west — a border basin of extinct volcanoes, bubbling mineral springs and Cheb's medieval core, with Franconian half-timbering on the Czech side of the line.
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Džbán
A white-marlstone plateau of deep woods and hop country between Rakovník, Louny and Slaný — a natural park nobody visits, which is the recommendation.
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Křivoklátsko
Deep oak forests around the meandering Berounka — a UNESCO biosphere reserve with a royal castle at its heart and pheasant-quiet trails.
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Písecko
The middle Otava country of gold-bearing sands, granite woods and the deep Orlík arm of the Vltava — with Písek's medieval stone bridge at the centre.
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Slavkovský les
The high, boggy plateau behind the spa triangle — mineral springs in the woods, the Kladská bogs, and Bečov's castle with its golden reliquary.
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Šumava
The biggest forest wilderness in the country — glacial lakes, high peat bogs and long quiet ridges along the Bavarian border.
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Broumovsko
Sandstone at its most theatrical — the Adršpach and Teplice rock cities, the Broumovské stěny wall, and a valley of baroque Dientzenhofer churches.
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Doupovské hory
The remains of a huge Tertiary volcano, mostly locked inside a military area — walkable only on its rim, which keeps it the wildest corner of the northwest.
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Labské pískovce
The Czech half of the Elbe sandstone world outside the national park — table mountains, the Tisá rock walls and the deep Labe canyon at Děčín.
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Žďárské vrchy
The granite crown of the Vysočina — rock tors above spruce woods, headwater streams in every direction, and Santini's star-shaped church at Žďár.
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Železné hory
A tilted block of every geology Bohemia owns, rising gently from the Labe plain to a wooded scarp — with Lichnice's ruin on the edge.
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