Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer and Průhonice Park
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Recorded distance
170 km
Riding-time estimate
3 h 24
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Přelouč it runs 170 km to Přelouč; allow about 3 h 24 of riding. The stops in between: Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th, Průhonice Park and back through Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer
Kladruby nad Labem is a horse village in the flat country of the Elbe valley in eastern Bohemia, and its stud farm is among the oldest in the world. It was founded in the sixteenth century to breed carriage horses for the Habsburg court, and the Kladruber, a large, elegant horse that is usually white or black, is still bred here. The landscape, with its stables, riding grounds, pastures, avenues of trees and farm buildings laid out as a single working system, was added to the UNESCO list in 2019 as a cultural landscape.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer is where the day begins. Next is Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th.
2. Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th
Kutná Hora was once the second city of Bohemia, and the reason is silver. In the thirteenth century, rich veins were found in the hills here, and within a hundred years the town was producing a large share of Europe's silver, which paid for kings, armies and cathedrals. The royal mint, known as the Italian Court because of the Florentine craftsmen who ran it, struck the Prague groschen, a silver coin that circulated across Central Europe, and the Bohemian king sometimes stayed here. The wealth of the town is written in its buildings, notably the great Cathedral of Saint Barbara, a Gothic masterpiece with soaring, pointed vaults and flying buttresses like the ribs of a ship, dedicated to the patron saint of miners.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Průhonice Park.
3. Průhonice Park
Průhonice is a village on the south-eastern edge of Prague, close enough to the capital that you can hear the city's hum, and yet its park feels like a separate country. The park was shaped from the 1880s by Count Arnošt Emanuel Silva-Tarouca, a passionate plantsman who worked with the landscape designer Adolf Vaněk to create a naturalistic landscape of lakes, meadows and woodland. He collected trees and shrubs from across the temperate world, and the park is especially known for its rhododendrons, which bloom in a riot of colour around May.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer to Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th
Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer → Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th to Průhonice Park
Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th → Průhonice Park is 59 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Průhonice Park to back through Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th
Průhonice Park → back through Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th is 59 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th to Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer
back through Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th → Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.