Educational Trail Hlinná – Kamýk
This educational trail provides information about the geological importance of one part of the Central Bohemian Uplands and its natural-historical context. The trail begins at Hlinná village and runs to Holý hill, Velké hradiště, Plešivec hill and back again.
The individual stops of the trail are marked by information panels indicating site characteristics.
The trail is 10 kilometres long and non-binding – individual stops are not in a thematic order. Visitors can decide themselves on the order of the stops, or choose just a part of the trail. Local attractions include, among others, the Holý Hill Nature Reservation.
Stops
Hradiště Natural monument
Hradiště is a natural monument located on the hill of the same name (545 m a. s. l) 4 km northwest to Litoměřice above the hamlet Mentaurov. A significant dominant feature of the surroundings of Litoměřice is a partly forested mountain with steppe fields, rocky outcrops and natural rubble. The top of the mountain offers a wonderful view of its surroundings.
The protected area is occupied by the southern and southwestern slopes of the hill with the same name at the edge of the geomorphological subunit of the Verneřické Central Highlands. The subjects of protection are herbs with the occurrence of the grasshoppers (Pulsatilla pratensis subsp. Bohemica and P. patens) and their hybrids, the P. haeckelii. However, ongoing observations show that the observed species have been in decline since the 1970s, and the cause of this phenomenon has not been sufficiently clarified. The locality is strongly impacted by industrial immissions, which is the reason for the gradual extinction of the old pine forest on the top plateau, close to the natural monument. The area is part of the locality Holý hill near Hlinná and is a Special Area of Conservation (protection of the Pulsatilla patens).
To the east there is Křížová hora, Sedlo, Vlhošť and part of Ralská upland including the highest peak, south and southeast Litoměřice, Říp on the horizon, southwest Milešovské Central Highlands, west to northwest a smaller part of Krušné mountains, northwest to north Varhošť and Holý hill, to the northeast Babinská fields and top parts off the Dlouhý hill of Babinská fields. Below the top we can find the rocky natural rubble.There is a small cave on the southwest side of one of the rocky outcrops.
Photo gallery
Galerie - Hradiště Přírodní památka
