South Moravia

Tag Lednice

18 3 2010

In the southernmost part of our country between the Dyje and Morava rivers, an area similar to a vine leaf in shape is found. It offers everything that you might want to see and things you haven’t seen before.

Autor: Michaela Cibulková

Tagy: Břeclav, Dyje, Janohrad, Lednice, Lichtensteins, Mikulov, Traditions, Valtice, Wine tasting

Celebrations of an Ordinary Day, new book by a Moravian writer Jan Kostrhun

Rubrika: Culture

2 2 2010

The name of Jan Kostrhun, renowned Moravian writer, appears again in connection with the publication of his new series of three novels “Celebrations of an Ordinary Day”.

Autor: Michaela Cibulková

Tagy: Lednice

An interview with Jiří Komorous, the first home office deputy

Rubrika: Culture

23 1 2010

An interview with Jiří Komorous, the first home office deputy.

Autor: Svatava Rudolfová

Tagy: Interview, Lednice

Burčák Festivities in Hustopeče

Rubrika: Tourism

9 11 2009

To experience unforgettable atmosphere of local gastronomy, wine, folklore, crafts and knight jousting whilst drinking some sweet and fizzy Burčák (young, slightly fermented wine)? Then the best choice is to visit the Burčák festivities in Hustopeče – the town of good wine.

Autor: Michaela Cibulková

Tagy: Břeclav, Burčák, Lednice, Valtice, Wine tasting

Wedding services

Rubrika: Tourism

29 10 2009

Love is like a teardrop. It forms in an eye and falls to the heart. This saying is also poignant for the Lednice-Valtice area. Once visitors come here they will always remember it.

Autor: Michaela Cibulková

Tagy: Břeclav, Janohrad, Lednice, Lichtensteins, Mikulov, Romantic castle, Valtice, Wedding services

Interview with the head of Czech football

Rubrika: Sport

9 10 2009

Former Czech national team representative, captain of a team and current head of Czech-Moravian Football Association talks about his relationship with South Moravia in an interview for the Grand Moravia Magazine

Autor: Svatava Rudolfová

Tagy: Fotball, Interview, Lednice, Lichtensteins, Traditions, Wine tasting

Lake management passion, 500 years of history

Rubrika: Culture|Fishing|Tourism

28 9 2009

Aromatic grass carp, Miller’s trout or wild catfish. Those are the delicacies that can be appreciated by many food connoisseurs. One does not need to travel as far as Southern Bohemia to taste some fresh water fish specialities. Even restaurants in the south of Moravia are able to prepare fish dishes that not only look good but are also very tasty and they do so using entirely fresh fish. It is because the area of Southern Moravia, being the basin of both the rivers Morava and Dyje, is abundant with many lakes.

The Lednice lakes are the well-known work of Moravian lake managers. They include the lakes Nesyt, Hlohovecký, Prostřední, Mlýnský and Zámecký and make up an area of 544 hectares of water surface that is used not only for fish breeding purposes but since 1952 it has also been a National natural preserve.

Autor: Petr Cibulka

Tagy: Břeclav, Lednice, Lichtensteins, Traditions, Valtice

Wine salon of the Czech Republic

Rubrika: Tourism|Wine

28 9 2009

The lovers of wine can not simply pass through Lednice-Valtice area without stopping at the wine tasting exposition of the Wine Salon of Czech Republic at the Valtice chateau. This exhibition of Czech viticulture introduces the best 100 wines that were awarded with the title-label “Wine salon of the Czech Republic.” National competition of Moravian and Czech wines “Wine salon of the Czech Republic” is the top, most reputable, highest wine competition in the Czech Republic and it tops the system of other nominating competitions.

Autor: Michaela Cibulková

Tagy: Lednice, Traditions, Valtice, Wine tasting

The most beautiful being is a horse

Rubrika: Tourism

20 9 2009

Climate, environmental and soil habitat of Southern Moravia are close to those of the nearby Uhry region that is famous for the breeding of horses. However, not many large stud farms have been established in this area. Horses were bred here at most aristocratic mansions which is proved today by the presence of opulent chateau stables. The aristocracy bred horses for their own needs, they rode them and used them for carriages. In breeding they preferred fine types of horses with a higher share of an Arabic horse and later on of an English Thoroughbred if it was not a Thoroughbred itself. The idea of breeding other powerful warm-blooded horses on these mostly sandy soils, with dry, slightly windy climate and with a low density vegetation, defeated the object of horse breeding with the exception of the chateau stud farm in Kopčany, founded by the empress Maria Theresa in 1765. But even here the breeding of a powerful horse, the Horse of Kladruby in this case, arrived accidentally.

Autor: Stanislav Hošák

Tagy: Horse, Lednice

The history of Lednice castle

Rubrika: Culture|Tourism

20 9 2009

The first historical record of the castle in Lednice comes from 1222. At this time, a gothic fortress and courtyard stood here, which Czech king, Václav (Wenceslas) I, granted to Austrian nobleman Siegfried Sirotek.

At the end of the 13th century, the Lichtenstein family became owners of the whole of Lednice and nearby Mikulov. Originally from Styria in Austria, over time they expanded their ownership of land on both sides of the Moravia-Austria border. They become owners of Lednice in 1322.

Later to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country, the Lichtenstein family had no special status in the Middle Ages and their properties were much more modest. And it was in Austria that they owned large swathes of land.