Castles, chateaux in the Northern Bohemia surrounding Saxonia, monasteries and churches (“via Sacra”), museums and technical sights

Castles and chateaux

Northern Bohemia

• Šluknov
• Lemberk
• Děčín
• Benešov nad Ploučnicí
• Duchcov
• Sychrov

• Sloup v Čechách

Saxonia

• castles Oybin and Bautzen
• chateau Ramenau

• chateau Moritzburg
• castle Koenigstein

Ecclestiastic (church) monuments

The famous way called „via Sacra“ leading from Northern Bohemia through Lower Silesia (PL) up to the Upper Lausatia (D) is full of nice monasteries and churches in the style of so called “Czech barrocco”:

• St.Marienthal (women´s monastery)
• Ostritz
• St.Lawrence basilika and St.Zdislava in Jablonné v Podještědí
• cathedral of virgin Mary in Hejnice
• St.Peter´s Church in Bautzen (Budyšín)
• evangelical church of St. Peter and Paul in Zgorzelec

You can find more about via sacra on www.oberlausitz.com.

In Varnsdorf and in surrounding towns (Rumburk, Mikulášovice,Šluknov, Česká Lípa, Nová Bor, etc.) there are also a lot of churches and other ecclestiastic buidings and monuments (eg.cross-way in Jiřetín pod Jedlovou). We recommend to visit some of these monuments during your cycling trips.

Technical sights and museums

There are following museums and technical sights worth seeing:

• Museum of glass: Nový Bor, Kamenický Šenov
• Regional Museum of Bohemian Switzerland at Krásná Lípa
• Regional Museum in Český Dub (Podještědí)
• Memorial of Jewish victims of Nazi-regime in Terezín
• Miner´s museum in Jiřetín pod Jedlovou
• Nativity scen s museum (Kryštofovo údolí)
• View towers: Jedlová,Tanečnice,Dymník, Hrádek (Varsndorf),Studenec,Vlčí Hora
• Well-preserved half-timbered houses: Zubrnice, Chřibská, Rynartice, Rybniště

• Bautzen: Lausatian Sorbian museum and cultural center
• Grossschönau: museum of lace
• Seifhennersdorf: Robbers head Karasek´s museum
• Half-timbered houses: Obercunnersdorf, Bertsdorf-Hörnitz, Grossschönau,Faktorenhof in Eibau