Services offered
The information center focuses on the provision of information for incoming visitors and citizens of Borovany and surrounding area.
The information center provides:
- Advance sales of tickets for cultural events in Borovany, Trhové Sviny, advance sales via
- CBsystem (www.cbsystem.cz)
- Public internet access
- Sales of maps, tourist books, postcards, souvenirs, and blueberry souvenirs
- Information about tourist attractions, travel, accommodation and dining in and around
Borovany
- Stamp of Carp Jakub’s Fairytale Office
- Sales of tourist stamps no. 924 - Borovany Monastery, and 323 - Jan Žižka Memorial, tourist
- cards and stickers
The information center offers guided tours of the monastery:
- Borovany medieval monastery - history, architecture, art
- Baroque statue lapidarium in the cloister
- Paintings and sculptures from the Aleš South Bohemian Art Gallery collections
- Exhibition of Churche vestures
- Church of The Visitation of Our Lady
- Baroque piety - Scapular Brotherhood and Scapular Chapel
- Separate selfguided tour:
- Museum of Římov Passion Play Route and Pilgrimages
- Baroque statue lapidarium in the cloister
- Model of Borovany at the turn of the 20th century
- Information panels on monastery history
We provide a 10% discount on guided monastery tours if tickets from Zoo Dvorec, Fairytale Loft and Jan Žižka Monument are presented.
History
The information center with an exhibition room and wheelchair access was opened on the ground floor of the renovated former monastery in 2009.
OPENING HOURS
May - June: Mon - Sun 9 am - noon, 1 – 4 pm
July - August: Mon - Sun 9 - 5:30 pm
September: Mon - Sun 9 am - noon, 1 – 4 pm
October - April: Mon - Sun 9 am - noon, 1 – 4 pm