Tips for trips

Town Parkland on Stool Hill
Access to the mesa of Stool Hill (Kvádrberk) in the second half of the 19th century and renovation of other nearby tourist footpaths in Czech Switzerland strengthened the importance of Děčín as a tourist cetnre. In 1871, on the top plateau there was built an observation terrace with an obelisk known as the Emperor‘s Lookout Point. The parkland area is the starting point of several tourist routes.

Fotografie byla použita ze stránek www.osk-art.cz
Autor fotografie: Jiří Dřevák

High Sněžník (Děčín Snow Hill)
It is a remarkable dominant feature of the scenery around Děčín. At 726 m high, it is also the highest mesa in the Czech Republic. A stone tower with battlements rises high into the sky on the peak of the mesa. The tower was built from sandstone ashlars, and above the doorway decorated with the family crest of the Thun earls, who financed the construction. This observation tower, dating from 1864, is the oldest stone sturcture of this kind in Bohemia. It provides an excelent 360° view far into Bohemia as well as Saxony. It is open all year round from 10 a.m. (or from 9 a.m. at weekends and on holidays) to 5 p.m.

Autor fotografie: David Vepřek, vítěz ceny veřejnosti v soutěži Zimní Děčín objektivem (2007)

Tisá Sandstone Rocks
This fantastic rock town together with the Rájec Rocks, Ostrov Rocks and High Sněžník is an attractive sandstone tourist and rock climbing area. The Tisá Rocks sandstone massif, which reaches an altitude of 613 meters, slopes southwards in an almost solid vertical wall. The northern
side was disintegrated by erosive processes into numerous columns, towers, cliffs, ravines, defiles, ledges, caves, and mushroom-shaped rocks. The Tisá Rocks are divided into two parts – The Big Rocks and Small Rocks. Guided tours and tourist paths lead through both parts. As this is an area of traditional sandstone mountaineering, the first sporting ascents were organised here as early as at the beginning of the 20th century. The main entrance into the rocks is from a car park near the church in the village of Tisá. If you follow the red marks from the car park up the hill, you will get to the „Rock Square“.