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Take the Central Bohemian Uplands Nostalgic Train to Třebenice to see Czech garnets

Trip on the route Lovosice - Třebenice - Hazmburk - Libochovice - Budyně nad Ohří - Roudnice nad Labem

This unique trip to see the beautiful Czech garnets begins at a stop of the Central Bohemian Uplands Nostalgic Train in Lovosice, from where you can ride a bike to Třebenice. Here, in addition to the Czech garnets, you can also admire an exhibition of castles in the Central Bohemian Uplands. The local chocolate factory with various types of chocolate will certainly be an attractive destination specially for children. After visiting Třebenice, you can set off on a red tourist route through Klapý to Hazmburk Castle. Then you continue and follow the red route to Libochovice. There you visit its greatest attraction – the local castle. Here you can end your trip and return on your own back to Lovosice via Chotěšov, Vrbičany and Siřejovice (approximately 15 km), or continue to Budyně nad Ohří, for example, to the water castle. From there you return to Lovosice to the starting point of the trip through Písty, Doksany, and Lukavec (approximately 20 km).

When the season ends, when the Central Bohemian Uplands Nostalgic Train (T4) does not operate, we use regular train or bus connections.

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Lovosice

Archaeological finds show that Lovosice was an important trade center in prehistoric times. The first written mention of Lovosice, however, comes "only" from 1143, when Prince Vladislav II. donated Lovosice to the Strahov Monastery.

In the 13th century, the village belonged to the lords of Lichtemburk, who sold them twice - in 1251 and 1272 - to the Meissen Cistercian monastery of Altzella. They belonged to the Lovosice monastery until 1415, when King Wenceslas IV. took it and made it to a fief of Vlášek from Kladno. Roughly, in the 15th century a fortress was built in Lovosice, about which very little is known. In 1510, the village was registered into the hands of the Šlejnice family, who probably had the local fortress rebuilt into a Renaissance chateau. At some point in the third quarter of the 16th century. In 1574, Lovosice was acquired by Jan of Valdštejn, whose son Adam achieved the promotion of the village to a town in 1600.

In 1756, the first battle of the Seven Years' War was fought near Lovosice, in which King Frederick II. the Great of Prussia defeated the Austrian army led by General von Brown. In 1783, the Lovosice estate was acquired by the Schwarzenbergs, who held it until 1945. In the first half of the 19th century, the town was hit by two catastrophes: in 1809 a large fire and in 1845 a large flood, but the town recovered from both.

Lovosice has been a free town since the middle of the 19th century. The industrial development of the city was supported by the railway, which in the years 1850 - 1851 connected it with Prague and Dresden. This was followed by the founding of a “cikorka” factory, a sugar factory, a brewery and most importantly the first chemical factory in 1900. The town acquired a modern character through a radical reconstruction in the second half of the 20th century, during which a number of older buildings were demolished, including the former Jewish ghetto.

Although Lovosice is traditionally seen as an industrial town, there are interesting monuments: in addition to the already mentioned castle, it is mainly the Baroque church of St. Wenceslas from 1745 and the so-called Pfannschmidt's villa from 1887. The villa has a remarkable stucco decoration in the interior. Lovosice is a popular starting point for trips to Lovoš and further to the Central Bohemian Uplands.

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Osvoboditelů 48/55
410 02 Lovosice

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