Landmarks

The fertile river valleys attracted the first inhabitants to the Pilsen Region as early as the Neolithic period. Over thousands of years, the region has changed beyond recognition. Thriving towns gained royal privileges, hosted important personalities of their time, faced devastating war campaigns, and rose again to even greater prosperity.

Industrial Monuments

Historical Underground

Castles and Chateaus

Tips for trips

Centrum Caolinum and the Nevřeň Kaolin Mine

The Kaolin Mine in Nevřeň is undoubtedly one of the most interesting industrial monuments in the region. If you want to learn more, the mine tours will take you through the underground galleries and introduce you to the history of the site and the mining methods of the time.

The Ejpovice Railway Tunnel

The Ejpovice Railway Tunnel is unique in the Czech context: the length of the tunnel is over 4 kilometres, making it the longest tunnel in the Czech Republic.

Černouhelná Bašta

Coal mining at Černouhelná Bašta (Black-Coal Bastion) has a rich history. Nowadays, the local coal mining is presented by means of the educational trail “In the footsteps of mining activity in the Břasy region”, which, among other things, introduces the massive neighbouring quarry and the Kateřina natural monument.

Hracholusky Water Reserve

Over the years of its existence, the Hracholusky WR has become an integral part of the surrounding landscape and a pleasant place for recreation for most of the region’s inhabitants and very few people actually realise how crucial this waterworks has been for the operation of the surrounding villages and businesses.

The Bridge in Bělá nad Radbuzou

The most important monument of the small town of Bělá nad Radbuzou in the Upper Palatinate Forest is the former road bridge over the Radbuza River. Because of its importance and unusual appearance, this bridge is popular with many tourists and has even become part of the the town’s coat of arms.

The Bolevec Pond Dam

The Great Bolevec Pond, popularly called Bolevák, is today known not only to Pilseners as a place of recreation and bathing. It is the largest and oldest pond in the Bolevec Pond System, established in 1460, when the town of Pilsen bought the village of Bolevec.

The Museum of Pine Pitch Collecting

In the gamekeeper’s lodge in Lomany near Plasy, there is a museum dedicated to the extraction of pitch, which introduces the visitor to the tools and containers needed for the collecting, guides them through period photographs and other exhibits that remind the history of forestry in the region. The exhibition is complemented by hunting trophies.

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The project ‘Attractive Pilsen Region’ was created using funds from the state budget of the Czech Republic from the program of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic.

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