Highlights of South Moravia

Day 01

Arrival in Prague

Day 02

Departure from Prague to Cesky Sternberk (castle with valuable interiors and unique collections of historical weapons and gold coins). Then continued to metropolis of Moravia—Brno. City tour including all major sights - Spilberk royal castle, St. Peter and St.Paul Cathedral, Old Town Hall, St.James Church. Overnight in Brno.

Day 03

Full day trip to Slavkov (chateau and a famous battlefield from 1805—the so called "battle of three emperors" in which Napoleon defeated the armies of the Russian Tsar and Austrian Emperor took place here) and to Kromeriz (town of culture that is of Europe-wide significance. Its best -known buildings are the Archbishops Chateau with a gallery (paintings by Tizian, Breughel, Cranach, van Dyck), and a historic library. Chateau garden—listed in UNESCO World Heritage register, churches of St. Maurice, St.John the Baptist and of the Blessed Virgin Mary). Overnight in Brno.

Day 04

a)—full day trip to Velehrad (a famous pilgrimage site where in 1990 John Paul II held a mass in the presence of nearly one million pilgrims from the whole Europe) and Lednice—Valtice area (it offers visitors a stupendous mixture of manor house buildings and pavilions nestling in a unique network of canals, rivulets, little lakes and parks interpersed with a number of romantic structures. This area is also listed in UNESCO World Heritage register). Evening will be spent in one of the local wine cellars—dinner, wine, folklor music.

b)—full day trip to Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak Republic situated on the bank of the Danube river. City tour including all major sights in town—Castle, St. Martin Cathedral, National Theatre, Palffy Palace, Michael´s Gate, Old City Hall. Overnight in Brno.

Day 05

Departure from Brno to Prague with stop-over in Jaromerice (an impressive Baroque chateau. The chateau theatre has decorations by Jean Baptist) and in Trebic (the emergence of the town is connected to the foundations of the Benedictine monastery. The real architectural jewel is the basilica of St.Procopius from the 13th century. Worth seeing is also the Jewish ghetto with two synagogues and a well-preserved Jewish cemetary). Overnight in Prague.

Day 06

Full day city tour in Prague including all major sights in Prague—Castle, Old Town, Jewish Ghetto, Charles Bridge, Little Quarter.

Day 07

Full day at leisure.

Day 08

Departure.