Hotel Hukvaldy - Culture

Since 1993, the Fund of Janacek Hukvaldy has been the organizer of the International Music Festival Janacek Hukvaldy. Its concept is based on the very origin of the music legacy of the Hukvaldy native - Leos Janacek, in the most varied aspects. The Hukvaldy concert stages are regularly open to young and talented composers and performers for who the Hukvaldy Festival often represents an important stepping stone to other prestigious concert stages. In this respect and for many years, the Fund of Janacek Hukvaldy has been engaged in close co-operation with the Janacek Academy of Music and Grammar School in Ostrava and the Faculty of Art Studies of the Ostrava University in order to open the world of artistic flight to their students and graduates. Another aspect of Janacek's legacy concerns the fact that his music may be heard at the Hukvaldy Festival in all sorts of performance forms, from classical performance to, for instance, folklore. This fact indicates a wide spectrum of music perception possibilities. The International Music Festival has always been opened to chamber and symphonic music, opera and dancing theatre and recently it has also offered a place to music linked with poetry and spoken word and the already mentioned folklore art.

Hukvaldy Castle, the third largest one in the Czech Republic, was founded at an important route connecting Olomouc with Cracow in the 13th century. In mid 14th century, the Castle was purchased by the Bishops of Olomouc who were then the most frequent lords there. Nevertheless, due to unfavourable financial situation of the Olomouc Diocese the castle owners were changed very often in the course of the following decades. Among others, let's name the Hungarian King and later on the Emperor Sigmund. In early 16th century, the Hukvaldy Castle was returned to the Olomouc Diocese until 1948, when it was nationalized. In the 20th century, the castle was desolated and ruined for a long time. St. Andrew Chapel, constructed in the 17th century, is the best preserved building at the castle. The castle yard is dominated by the so called White Tower, build in the 15th century. The Hukvaldy Castle with its adjacent game park is a place where the International Music Festival "Janackovy Hukvady" is held as a memorial of the famous composer who was born in the village of Hukvaly. The whole castle hill is a nature heritage site and its old beech trees provide a shelter to rare fauna and flora species.

In places where today we find the building mill originally stood wooden mill and the first mention of him is from 1787. In today's brick form around the mill was rebuilt in 1804 and in 1830 the mill was built rotary roof. Mill served its purpose until the end of the 19th century and then was adapted to the dwelling. The recreational facilities serving the mill since 1960. Near the western edge of the village of Lower Sklenov and hills at the foot of the hill (424 m) facing brick windmill. This is a Dutch-type mill, a conical building, which completed sindel's conical roof. The building dates from the mill in 1804. Wind wheel driving the grinding equipment no longer, remained the only part grinding equipment. A few years ago the mill building was renovated and rebuilt into a stylish recreation building.

Technical Museum of Tatra Koprivnice is the most integrated collection devoted to beginnings of the production of transportation vehicles in the Bohemian countries (in the Austria - Hungary of that time, and later on in Czechoslovakia). The exhibited individual automobiles and also their components (including the unique air-cooled engines) allow observing the unconventional ideas of that period, which had become the policy of the local designers. Within the course of decades, a worldwide-recognized phenomenon - the TATRA automaker - was created from the small shop in the town of Koprivnice, where Ignac Sustala had started his production of the road carriages, sleds and buggies.

The proud gothic tower known as Truba Tower is a part of the Stramberk castle. With its height of 40 metres it dominates the town. Because of the unclear history of the castle Stramberk, we do not know the exact history of the tower itself. Between 1901-1903 the tower was repaired, covered with a roof and rebuilt to a lookout tower. Stramberk Visitors can taste the traditional sweets savory "Stramberk ears".

18 km from hotelu Hukvaldy, in Roznov pod Radhostem is The Wallachian Village. It is a part of the open-air museum. It shows typical folk settlement where clusters of dwelling-houses and farmhouses alternate with tiny fields, fruit trees, little gardens, beehives and cattle pens. The area is animated by horse, cattle, and sheep breeding, and poultry farming. Presently, interiors of ten timbered houses are open to visitors along with the farmhouses, wells, a fruit-drying kiln, school, belfry, wind mill and a smithy.