VIMPERK SIGHTS:

castle-museum, arboretum – forest garden, movie-theatre, swimming pool, winter and football (soccer) stadium, tennis courts, horse-riding school, biking, hiking, skiing, bike and ski rental, fishing, mushroom picking, fitness, solarium, massages, pedicure, manicure, discotheque, night clubs and bars, supermarkets, gasoline station, post office, banks, hospital, railway and bus station, information center.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

TRIPS - NATURE TRAILS

Boubinsky Forest, Sudslavicka Path, Chalupska Fenland, Pravetinska Path, Javornik, Jezerni Fenland, Povydri, Medvedi stezka (Bear’s Trail).

MONUMENTS IN VIMPERK

The Square – Castle – Haselburg – Cerna zamecka brana (Black Castle Gate) – The Church of Visitation of the Holy Mary – Statue of St. Jan Nepomucky – the Church of St. Bartholomew – The Chapel of Fourteen Holy Helpers – Belfry – A stone statue of St. Anna Selfthird –Crib houses No. 16 an 18 – Innocencova Street – Municipal House on the square of nam. Svobody – descr. No. 39,40 – Fountains on the square –”U Jelena” House.

SKIING SEASON

Zadov-Churanov-Kvilda , Kubova Hut, Nova Hut, Horni Vltavice, Mitterfirmiansreut-Philippsreut.

PLACES OF INTEREST

• Kubova Hut – the highest positioned railway station in Bohemia, the remainders of the Golden Trail
• Zadov – a meteorological station Churanov,a sports skiing area
• Kvilda – the highest positioned mountain village in Bohemia
• Lenora – a township with a famous glassworks, Museum of Glass
• Wolf Stone – a monument of shooting the last Sumava wolf on Svetla Hora (Light Mountain)
• Vinec – a primeval fortification with a perimeter of about 1,350 m from the late Stone Age
• Vchynicko-Tetovsky Canal – a navigation canal from the turn of 18th and 19th centuries
• Volary – Volary houses, the Church of St. Catherine
• The sources of the Vltava River – the source of the longest Czech river, the dividing range of the North and the Black Sea

HISTORY OF VIMPERK

The oldest written mention about Vimperk dates back to 1263. 1359 – the first report of the salt path – the Golden Trail from Passau to Vimperk. In 1479, the king Vladislav Jagellonsky sublimated Vimperk to the town status. The 15th century brougth the beginnings of the tradition of the Vimperk book printing and glass making. The town had several owners, Eggenbergs, Schwarzenbergs …

In 1855, Jan Steinbrener started to print books continuing the printing tradition. The books printed in local printing houses were famous throughout Europe and were printed almost in 30 languages.