Peculiar Landscape near Kamenec

Here, the high, barren hills and even the village climbing uphill are striking on its own. The interwar tourist guides nicknamed this locality the “Czech Albania”.

The rocky hillsides made of slate with steppe vegetation and the valley below are proposed for the Natura 2000 protected area network as a site of European importance with an area of 10 hectares. The protected species here are mainly the dusky large blue and the scarce large blue. The site is also important for its unique insect species and endangered reptile species.

Under the hillside on the other side of the road, at the confluence of the Radnický and Němčovický Brooks, there is a dead peat bog of approximately 0.25 hectares with a peat layer thick from 2.5 to 4 metres. Instead of the typical peat bog vegetation, peat birch vegetation is present due to the fluctuating water regime. If you do a little research, you will also find a spring with chalybeate water in the peat bog area, which in the past was said to have healing effects.