Slow travel in Czechia.

5 places on the quieter side of Czechia — chosen for low visitor pressure, reachable by land, and worth more nights than a stopover.

Mikulov old town and castle beneath the Pálava hills

2.8 / 10

Břeclav · South Moravian Region · Czechia

Mikulov and the Pálava

The Moravian wine capital on the Austrian border: Renaissance square, Jewish cemetery, the Pálava limestone hills, and twelve official vineyard tracts.

The rock castle of Sloup v Čechách near Nový Bor, Czechia

1.5 / 10

Liberecký kraj (North Bohemia) · Czechia

Nový Bor

Two Bohemian glass towns still at work: furnaces you can stand over, Europe's oldest glass schools, and a basalt organ with no queue.

Gabled Renaissance facades on the main square of Telč

2.5 / 10

Vysočina (Bohemian-Moravian Highlands) · Czechia

Telč

A complete Renaissance market square reflected in three ponds, at its best after the day-trip coaches leave and the arcades fall quiet.

The roofs and church tower of Třeboň's old town from above

2.5 / 10

South Bohemia · Czechia

Třeboň

A town at the centre of a 500-year man-made pond landscape, where the autumn carp harvest is a working livelihood and the spa runs on local peat.

Autumn hills and village houses near Vidče in Moravian Wallachia

3.0 / 10

Zlín Region · Czech Republic

Valašsko (Moravian Wallachia)

The Moravian highlands where a century-old open-air museum and Jurkovič's timber chalets keep the shepherd past in plain sight.