Top 14 Natural Monuments around okres Kroměříž

At the Three Stones is the name of the crossroads of the Czech Tourist Board's tourist routes in the Hostýn Hills, less than a kilometer southwest of the top of Kyčera. The crossroads is approximately 735 meters above sea level. It was named after the three boundary stones that mark the borders of three former estates – Kelč, Bystřice and Lukov. The boundary stones were marked at the end of the eighteenth century, mostly in the years 1790-1798, very exceptionally in the second stage around 1830.[1] Today, it is the border of the municipalities of Rajnochovice, Chvalčov and Držková. On the southern slope below the crossroads lies the Solisko natural monument, protecting a preserved fir-beech forest. In the vicinity, we can find the springs of the Bystřička, Rusava and Juhyně, and from here you can also go to Tesák, Troják or Hostýn.

The Bludný natural monument represents the steep northwestern to northeastern slopes of the Bludný peak (637 m above sea level) in the central part of the Hostýnské vrchy (Rusavská hornatina district). In the lower part of the territory, it also includes the flow and both banks of the Bystřička river up to the state road from Bystřice pod Hostýnem to Tesák. It is located at an altitude of 510 to 637 m above sea level, about 600 m SW of the Smrdutá peak (749.8 m above sea level), 1.5 km west of the Na Tesáku recreation center and 6.5 km SE of Bystřice pod Hostýnem. Cadastral area of Chvalčov. Proclaimed by the Regulation of the Zlín Region No. 1/2015 of 29 June 2015. Registration code ÚSOP: 6094. IUCN category: IV – area for the care of habitats/species. Total area: 5.7487 hectares.

The Bludný Natural Monument represents the steep northwestern to northeastern slopes of the Bludný peak (637 m above sea level) in the central part of the Hostýnské vrchy. The subject of protection are rubble forests, flowering beech forests and populations of the humpbacked ground squirrel and the white-backed woodpecker.

At an altitude of 736 m above sea level, the Hostýn lookout tower is located on the Svatý Hostýn hill. The total height is 15 m, the observation deck is located at 12 m. The lookout tower offers a view of the Haná landscape and the Hostýnské vrchy hills. The location is easily accessible on foot, by bike and by car.

The lookout tower is located on Mount Hostýn (735 m), which dominates the Hostýn Hills and provides a beautiful view of the wide surroundings in all directions.

Legend has it that a spring gushed out of a rock in that place in 1241 to save Christians besieged by the Turks. The spring became a symbol of protection and refreshment for pilgrims. It also had a healing reputation, and belief in the miraculous power of Hostýn water has deep roots among the people to this day. The spring is visited by various Moravian people: Hanáci, Vlachs, Slovaks, who wash their sick limbs with the miraculous water. The spring, together with the water chapel, was called Moravian Lourdes and compared to the French Lourdes in southwestern France at the foot of the Pyrenees, where the Virgin Mary appeared in 1558. The Moravian Lourdes are, however, much older. Holy and truly miraculous water has been begged by Mother Hostýnská for the Moravians from the spring from the rock below the embankment for more than 700 years. The Water Chapel was also called the Well Chapel in the past.

The Water Chapel is an integral part of Hostýn. It was built in 1700 by the Bystřice parish priest Tomáš Provazník, near a spring that gushes out of a rock on the western slope of Hostýn.

Podzámecká zahrada (popularly known as Podzámka) is the largest of the "archbishop's gardens" in Kroměříž. Together with the smaller Flower Garden and the Archbishop's Castle, it has been a national cultural monument since 1995[1] and since 1998 an item on the UNESCO World Natural and Cultural Heritage List. It is also part of the Kroměříž Municipal Monument Reserve. The nature-landscape park in the style of English gardens covers an area of 64 hectares between the castle and the Moravia River.[2] The romantic look is completed by a network of water channels and ponds, a number of small buildings and sculptural decoration.