Suitable for:families with children
Length: 5 km
Duration: 60 minutes
Difficulty: low
Surface: tiles, asphalt, natural unpaved road
How to get there: Get to Strakonice by public transport or by car (parking at the winter stadium Na Křemelce or at the Strakonice castle).
Refreshment points: Strakonice
The trail begins in front of the winter stadium, near the sports grounds of the summer swimming area, skatepark and the newly constructed outdoor workout fi eld that can be used to exercise and stretch our whole body. Let us start running upstream along the Otava River. We pass the Strakonice castle with a viewing tower called Rumpál in the area of which there is the Museum of Central Otava Region of Strakonice, and small visitors will be delighted by the castle safari. We continue through Pod Hradem street where we then turn right around the wall of the former nobles’ garden, then we run along a forested path next to the railway track where the nature trail runs called Podskalí. We reach the slope called Calvary with Zellerin’s hillside, where a painter of the same name painted his artworks and a revivalist František Ladislav Čelakovský, a local native, composed his poems in the 19th century. We reach the left bank of the Otava River using a small island and we find ourselves at Podskalí. We pass several playgrounds on the way. After running around the brewery, we get to a bridge which leads us over the river back to the Strakonice castle (one can run through the premises). From there we continue to the already known route to the starting point of our trail, the winter stadium.
1. Sports grounds
2. Stonehenge replica
3. Strakonice castle
4. Museum of Central Otava Region of Strakonice
5. Castle safari
6. Church of Procopius of Sázava
7. Dudák – town brewery of Strakonice
8. Podskalí – statue of Dorothy
9. Bust of F.L. Čelakovský
10. Town information center of Strakonice
11. Church of St. Margaret