Cerhenice – Sacred Buildings, Educational Trail and Railway Technology

Cerhenice between Sacred Buildings, an Educational Trail and Railway Technology

When planning a trip, Cerhenice brings together several clearly distinct themes: sacred architecture, an educational trail with a fixed starting and ending point, observation towers and an extraordinary railway facility. This makes it a place where different interests can be taken into account together when planning your trip. Historical details, a walk with information boards and technical features each provide their own focal points.

Baroque Architecture and Special Sacred Details

The Baroque Church of St John of Nepomuk in Cerhenice was built in 1734–1735. It is listed in the Central Register of Immovable Cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic under number 21477/2–3423. This gives the church a specific historical reference point for anyone who would also like to take architectural history and cultural monuments into account when travelling through the Czech Republic.

Another sacred building is the late Baroque niche chapel of the Virgin Mary in Cerhenice, which dates from 1800. The chapel contains a polychrome, meaning multicoloured, relief of the Virgin Mary of Stará Boleslav made of red Nučice sandstone. It is precisely the combination of its construction date, chapel form and unusual material that makes this place a detail distinct from a mere view of the town.

Educational Trail with Six Kilometres and Eleven Stations

The Naučná stezka Cerhenice educational trail begins and ends in the square in the centre of Cerhenice. It is 6 kilometres long and has 11 stations with information boards. This allows you to directly factor the starting and ending point, route length and number of stations into your day planning. You can note the educational trail as a separate focus while also assessing the importance an informative walk should have during your stay.

Observation Towers and Railway Test Circuit

The observation towers of Cerhenice consist of two wooden towers. Both are 7 metres high and were officially opened to the public on 26 June 2015. The two towers therefore form a separate viewpoint within Cerhenice’s range of themes; their identical height makes the description clear and easy to compare.

The technical side of the town can be seen at the large test circuit in the VUZ Velim Test Centre. This test circuit is 13.276 kilometres long and is located at Za Dráhou 373, 281 02 Cerhenice. In addition, the Cerhenice, Velim and Sokoleč railway test circuit is a unique railway facility in Europe. Anyone interested in railway technology will therefore find a distinctly different focus here than at the sacred buildings or on the educational trail.

When choosing accommodation in Cerhenice, you can therefore first decide which of these themes should shape your trip planning: the sacred buildings, the educational trail, the observation towers or railway technology. This keeps your search for a hotel or other accommodation aligned with your actual travel interests, without mixing up the different destinations.

If you would also like to explore other places in the selection, you can find Přehvozdí, Němčice, Polní Chrčice, Zalešany, Vrbčany, Červené Pečky, Žiželice and Dobřichov here.

For the higher-level travel overview: Kolín District.