Easy hikes and walks around Ostrava

A baroque castle, built in 1682 on the foundations of a medieval fortress. The castle park is very well-kept and freely accessible, although there is a 5-star castle hotel in the castle. The preserved remains of the moat as well as the medieval bastions of the fortress bear witness to the original defensive character. It retained the baroque appearance from the end of the 17th century. Above the entrance is the family coat of arms of the Rothschilds. In the castle park, which is freely accessible, there are several models of castles. However, these are not labeled, so one does not know what these castles are called. Strange!

Swimming is also allowed here

The train station in Bohumín - Oderberg (Czech Republic), not far from the Polish border, is a fairly typical late Austro-Hungarian building from the outside. A beautiful train station, from here you can travel on to Poland or Vienna, Prague, Budapest. At the station there are ticket counters, toilets, vending machines with snacks and drinks. There is also a bistro, a waiting room and a shelf with books to take with you when you travel. Opposite the station there are also cyclo boxes where you can park and lock your bikes.

Tank No. 051 Type T-34/85, which was the first to cross the bridge over the Ostravice River on April 30, 1945 during the liberation of Ostrava, it serves as a memorial for the 1st Czechoslovak Independent Tank Brigade in the USSR . (Source: https://www.czecot.de/touristenobjekt/42470_denkmal-der-tschechoslowakischen-panzergrenadier-ostrava)

The Slezská Ostrava Town Hall (Slezskoostravská radnice) in the center of the city of Ostrava is one of the city's landmarks. It is located on the right bank of the Ostravice, below the confluence of the Lučina, at the address Těšínská 138. The community building, which was rebuilt in neo-baroque style in 1897, was no longer sufficient for representative purposes. That is why the construction of the new town hall was decided under the leadership of Mayor Jan Poppe. It was built on a plot of land next to the old town hall in Zámostí. The city held an architectural competition for the town hall in early 1910. Third place went to a project by Antonín Papež in the classicism style, the second was the proposal by the architect Viktorin Šulc from Pilsen. His project "Hanna" was kept in the form of the historicizing architectural style. The construction of the new town hall took place in 1911–1913 according to modified plans, in which, in addition to Šulc, the head of the building department at the municipal office Jaroslav Volenec, his assistant František Doležel and the builder Julius Vysloužil took part. The design of the town hall is a combination of neo-renaissance forms with other historical architectural styles. There are also elements of Art Nouveau here, especially inside. The main staircase to the first floor and the hall there are typical examples. The valuable parts include the plate inscriptions in the entrance stairs, the main staircase with lighting fixtures and, above all, the representation hall with richly decorated chandeliers. Although the town hall was not a revolutionary architectural work, its exterior and scale formed a picturesque and correspondingly balanced unit with the surrounding houses. Around 1950 subsidence appeared as an impact of the coal mining in the whole area. The urban planning intention to lead a north-south main road below the town hall on the right bank of the Ostravice also contributed to the destruction of the fairly new development in Zámostí. This resulted in a redesign of this part of Slezská Ostrava. (Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathaus_(Slezsk%C3%A1_Ostrava))

The Silesian Ostrava Castle is a castle in Ostrava in the northeast of the Czech Republic. It was originally built in the 1280s near the confluence of the Lučina and Ostravice rivers. The castle was built for military purposes due to its proximity to the Polish border. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_Ostrava_Castle

Wikipedia: A landmark of the city is the Moravská Ostrava Town Hall, which opened in 1930 and is now the headquarters of the Ostrava City Council. From its 75-meter-high, square, glass tower, a panoramic view of almost the entire city is possible.

Silesian-Ostrava Castle (Slezskoostravský Hrad), worth seeing castle complex on the Lučina, near the confluence with the Ostravice in Ostrava (Ostrava, Moravian-Ostrava) More info: https://www.slezskoostravskyhrad.cz/cz/o-hradu/