Day trips from Brno: 108 places within 2½ hours by car

A memorial on Pratzen Heights to the fallen of the 1805 Battle of Austerlitz, the Battle of the Three Emperors.

The Gothic ruin of the Rosa coeli convent stands above a small town known for its red wines.

One of the oldest breweries in Moravia, first mentioned in writing in 1298. It sits in a village north of Brno below the local chateau.

A wine town famous for its almond orchard with a lookout tower among the trees, blossoming pink in early spring.

A wine village north of Mikulov with one of the longest cellar lanes in the area.

A 138-metre-deep chasm in the Moravian Karst. Combine it with a boat ride on the underground Punkva river.

Often called the largest wine village in the Czech Republic, with hundreds of family wineries and cellar lanes.

A town famous for apricot orchards as well as red wines such as Frankovka and Modrý Portugal.

The Dietrichstein chateau above Mikulov keeps a giant wine barrel from 1643 that holds more than 100,000 litres. The town is the heart of the Mikulov wine subregion.

One of the Modré Hory villages that grow blue grape varieties, with vineyards and a small ski slope – a rarity in wine country.

A modern hilltop winery near Popice looking straight at the Pálava hills. Known for Riesling and the Pálava grape from the surrounding slopes.

A wine village under the limestone cliffs of Děvín, with old cellars and views over the Nové Mlýny reservoirs.

A hill of wine cellars and vineyards above Bořetice, crossed by wine trails and known for red wines.

The Liechtensteins' Neo-Gothic summer residence at the heart of the Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape (UNESCO), one of the largest designed landscapes in Europe. Its park hides a minaret over 60 m tall.

Limestone hills rising out of the Moravian plain, a UNESCO biosphere reserve rich in orchids and steppe flora.

Residence of the Olomouc archbishops with the Flower Garden and Chateau Garden, all UNESCO-listed. The picture gallery holds Titian's Apollo and Marsyas.

A Gothic castle on a rock spur that was never conquered and has kept its medieval look.

A wine village between Velké Pavlovice and Čejkovice, known for red wines and long rows of cellars below the vineyards.

Hundreds of wine cellars climb Stará hora hill above the village, many dug into loess over several levels.

Cellars begun by the Knights Templar in the 13th century run under the village in a cross-shaped labyrinth, today among the largest cellar complexes in the country.

The brewery where Jiří Menzel filmed Cutting It Short, brewing since the late 19th century in a picturesque yard with a museum.

In the cellars of Valtice Chateau, it presents the 100 best wines from each year's national wine competition. Tastings run in timed sessions.

A modern winery near Znojmo whose curved roof doubles as an open-air amphitheatre above the vineyard rows.

A row of cellars cut into loess near Znojmo, their façades traditionally painted blue.

A 35-metre Baroque column completed in 1754, the largest Baroque sculptural group in Central Europe. UNESCO since 2000.

Several hundred press houses and cellars stand side by side in the Búdy area outside the village, one of the largest cellar colonies in Moravia.

The only Jewish monument outside Israel listed by UNESCO in its own right, together with the Romanesque-Gothic Basilica of St. Procopius.

Přerov's brewery, founded in 1872 and named after the European bison on its label.

A Slovácko wine town known above all for Riesling, with cellars in the chateau grounds.

A microbrewery on the edge of Olomouc brewing unfiltered beers, with a summer garden near the Morava river.

Two of Baťa's concrete factory blocks turned into a museum, gallery and library: the story of the shoe empire that built a modern company town, and the travels of Hanzelka and Zikmund. Next door, the Baťa skyscraper keeps its director's office in a lift.

A border village of the Znojmo subregion below the Šobes vineyard, with a late-Gothic pilgrimage church.

Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel's star-shaped church, built from 1719, is designed around the number five, after the five stars of the saint's legend. UNESCO since 1994.

A lane of small whitewashed wine cellars with blue painted ornaments, protected as a folk architecture reserve since 1983.

Humpolec's brewery dates back to 1597. The Bernard family bought it at auction in 1991 and turned it into one of the country's best-known independent brewers.

A Baroque pilgrimage basilica on a hill above Olomouc, built from 1669 where, legend says, a local burgher saw a vision of the Virgin. Pope John Paul II visited in 1995 and made it a minor basilica; the terrace looks out over the Haná plain.

One of the Czech lands' most important pilgrimage sites, linked with St Methodius and Great Moravia: a Cistercian monastery founded in 1205 and a vast Baroque basilica that Pope John Paul II visited in 1990. Thousands come for the feast of Sts Cyril and Methodius on 5 July.

One of the oldest and most celebrated vineyards in the country, on a sunny spur in a meander of the Dyje inside Podyjí National Park. Reachable only on foot or by bike.

A hilltop basilica in the Hostýn Hills, among Moravia's most visited pilgrimage sites. Legend says the Virgin Mary saved people sheltering here from the Tatars in 1241 with a bolt of lightning; the Way of the Cross up the slope was designed in folk Art Nouveau style by Dušan Jurkovič.

Carbonated mineral springs in the Bečva valley, next to the Zbrašov aragonite caves, the warmest in the country.

Small traditional press houses clustered in a lane. The village is also known for the Ride of the Kings, inscribed on UNESCO's intangible heritage list.

High spruce country on the Bohemian-Moravian ridge; later and cooler than the lowlands, so the season runs well into October.

The former Premonstratensian monastery of Louka in Znojmo has vast wine cellars, now used by the Znovín winery for tours and tastings.

A fairy-tale castle rebuilt around 1900 for the Teutonic Order and a favourite filming location.

A pilgrimage hill with a Baroque chapel above Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem, surrounded by vineyards of the Blatnice appellation.

The largest Moravian spa, known for the salty Vincentka spring and for Dušan Jurkovič's spa houses in folk style.

An arcaded Renaissance chateau covered in more than 8,000 sgraffito 'bricks', no two alike. Composer Bedřich Smetana was born in its brewery.

The Dyje winds through a deep forested canyon along the Austrian border; the viewpoint looks down on Hardegg castle.

Oak and hornbeam hills above the Moravian wine country — oak boletes after August storms, and a good excuse to end the day in a cellar.

A modern brewery in the Vysočina highlands, opened in 2009, brewing unpasteurised lagers from local water.

A long Renaissance square lined with arcades and pastel gables, rebuilt after a fire in 1530. UNESCO since 1992.

An open-air museum of the Vysočina uplands near Hlinsko: timber farmhouses, barns and a water-powered mill and sawmill, put back to work on demonstration days.

Kopřivnice has built vehicles since 1850. The museum shows Tatra's streamlined saloons and racing cars and the Präsident of 1897, the first car made in central Europe; the lorries have their own museum across town.

Warm sulphur springs below a Renaissance chateau, in a village also known for its 16th-century hand paper mill and for the witch trials held here.

A former coal mine and ironworks turned cultural district, with a viewpoint at the top of Blast Furnace No. 1.

Central Europe's oldest open-air museum, founded in 1925: a wooden town square, a Wallachian village on the hillside and a valley of working water mills, with crafts and folk festivals through the season. Radhošť is just above.

A modern brewery in the foothills of the Beskydy, named after the Slavic god whose statue stands on the ridge near Radhošť. Known for distinctly bitter lagers.

Home of Kozel beer and its live goat mascot, a fixture of the brewery yard for decades. Founded by industrialist Franz Ringhoffer in 1874.

Mixed mountain forest above the Wallachian valleys. Honey fungus covers the stumps in October, after the boletes are done.

The brewery of the Jeseníky mountains in Hanušovice, founded in 1874 and brewing with soft mountain water.

Czech puppetry is on UNESCO's heritage list, and this museum in Chrudim's Renaissance Mydlář House holds thousands of puppets, from travelling marionette theatres to figures from around the world.

A small chapel decorated with the bones of some 40,000 people, arranged into a chandelier and a coat of arms by woodcarver František Rint in 1870.

A Bohemian winery working vineyards around the silver town, with tastings in cellars above the Vrchlice valley.

Legend says an army of knights led by St Wenceslas sleeps inside the hill and will ride out when the Czech lands are in their greatest need. A short climb through beech woods leads to a wooden lookout tower on the summit of Velký Blaník.

Beer brewing in Uhříněves was first recorded in 1594; the brewery, on its present site since 1705, was closed under communism in 1949 and revived by the former owners' descendants in 2015. Its Alois lagers honour Alois Tichý, who ran it in its 19th-century heyday.

A cathedral-scale Gothic church funded by silver miners and begun in 1388. Silver once made Kutná Hora the second town of the kingdom (UNESCO).

A mountain microbrewery in Ostravice below Lysá hora – a fitting reward after the climb.

Founded by the radical Hussites in 1420 and named after the biblical Mount Tabor. Tunnels run beneath the old town.

A craft brewery below Potštejn castle in eastern Bohemia, known for its IPAs and pale ales.

A Baroque pilgrimage monastery on a hill above Králíky, founded by Bishop Tobiáš Becker to fulfil a childhood vow; the foundation stone was laid in 1706. A tree-lined avenue with the Stations of the Cross climbs to the church and its cloisters, with views to the Králický Sněžník massif.

A 55 m spiral walkway of wood and steel on Slamník hill, with a slide more than 100 m long.

A neighbourhood microbrewery in Prague's Hostivař district, brewing unpasteurised lagers and ales that it serves in its own pubs across the city.

A Prague brewery on Korunní street revived in 2014 in a building that brewed beer from 1893. Its unfiltered lagers are poured in the big taproom next to the brewhouse.

A restored 19th-century vineyard in Havlíčkovy sady, in a Prague district whose name, Vinohrady, means 'vineyards'. The pavilion pours local wine.

A small Empire-style spa of timber buildings in the Jeseníky mountains, credited with some of the cleanest air in Central Europe.

The legendary seat of the first Czech princes on a rock above the Vltava. Its cemetery holds Dvořák, Smetana and Mucha.

One of Prague's first modern brewpubs, open since 1998 and known for experimental beers flavoured with banana, coffee, cherry or nettle.

A brewpub in continuous operation since at least 1499 that serves just one beer: a 13° dark lager. Its halls and garden seat around 1,200 guests.

Prague's largest brewery, brewing in the Smíchov district since 1869. The visitor centre walks through the history of brewing and ends with a tasting.

Folk-style timber buildings by architect Dušan Jurkovič on a Beskydy ridge, with the Valaška sky walk and a trail to Radhošť.

The highest peak of the White Carpathians (970 m), above orchid-rich meadows on the Slovak border.

A small wax-coated statue of the Infant Jesus, brought from Spain and given to the Carmelites in 1628, draws pilgrims from all over the world to the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Malá Strana. Its robes are changed through the church year from a wardrobe of more than a hundred.

One of the oldest stud farms in the world, breeding the ceremonial Kladruber horse since 1579. UNESCO since 2019.

Czechia's largest technical museum, on Letná: a great transport hall of locomotives, cars and motorbikes with aircraft hanging overhead, plus astronomy, photography, printing and a mine in the basement.

A small brewery inside the Strahov Monastery above Prague Castle, revived in 2000 on the site of a monastic brewery recorded in 1628. Its St. Norbert beers are brewed on the spot.

Brewing at Břevnov, the oldest monastery for men in Bohemia, is traced to its founding in 993. The modern brewery reopened in 2011 and brews under the Benedict label.

Begun in 1357 under Charles IV, this Gothic bridge links the Old Town and Malá Strana. Thirty Baroque statues line its parapets.

A peat spa near Pardubice, with a spa house designed by the modernist architect Josef Gočár.

A terraced vineyard estate in Prague's Troja with a winery and restaurant, one of the largest inside the city.

A small vineyard on the slope below Prague Castle, linked by tradition to prince Wenceslas and replanted in the 1990s.

One of Europe's largest aviation museums, on a working military airfield on the edge of Prague: aircraft from World War I biplanes to Cold War jets, in hangars and out on the grass. Entry is free.

Seat of Czech rulers for over a thousand years and today of the president, often cited as the largest ancient castle complex in the world. St. Vitus Cathedral guards the Crown Jewels.

A historic vineyard inside Prague Botanical Garden, with a wine bar and the Baroque chapel of St. Clare looking over the city.

A heart spa on the Elbe, founded in 1908 after a mineral spring was struck in the castle courtyard. Its colonnade and park lie beside the river.

The largest fishpond in the Czech Republic, completed in 1590 by Jakub Krčín. The autumn carp harvest is a spectacle.

Home of Probošt's mechanical nativity scene, carved by a local carpenter and his friends over some forty years and still set in motion by its original mechanism – a national cultural monument, with some 400 more nativity scenes around it.

State-owned brewery known for its long 90-day lagering and a century-long dispute over the name 'Budweiser'. Water comes from its own deep artesian wells.

The highest peak of the Hrubý Jeseník (1,491 m), topped by a TV tower with a viewing platform.

Spruce plantations around the peat bogs are saffron milk cap country, best in September and October.

Founded in Třeboň in 1379, it ranks among the oldest breweries in the country. It stands by the Rosenberg chateau, surrounded by the region's fishponds.

Peat cut from the Třeboň bogs is used for the baths here, in a town of fishponds and Renaissance houses.

Rebuilt by the Schwarzenbergs in the 19th century in the style of Windsor Castle, with lavish interiors and an English park.

A village brewery just north of Prague, closed in 1949 and brought back to life by locals in 2011. Its unpasteurised 10° and 12° lagers have a loyal Prague following.

A peat spa in a small town above the Lužnice, reached from Tábor by the first electrified railway in Austria-Hungary.

The village razed by the Nazis in June 1942 in revenge for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The memorial includes a bronze sculpture of 82 children.

The oldest brewery still working in České Budějovice, founded by the town's burghers in 1795. The brewery restaurant serves its lagers fresh from the site.

A Baroque church built against a limestone cliff in the Bohemian Karst, over the cave where, legend says, Ivan, the first Czech hermit, lived in the 9th century. A steep path climbs to the cross on top of the rock for a view down the valley.

Below Vysoký Chlumec castle, brewing has been recorded since 1466, and the brewery has been tied to the Lobkowicz family since the 16th century.