Stará Ves – Cultural Monuments, Forest and Trails on Holý kopec

Stará Ves offers a combination of cultural monuments, protected landscape and trails on Holý kopec. This gives you several distinct areas of focus when planning your trip: sacred architecture, forest and meadow landscapes, cycling and a longstanding pilgrimage tradition.

Cultural monuments with distinctive details

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is listed as an immovable cultural monument. Its 60-metre-high tower defines the surrounding landscape and gives the village a distinctive vertical feature.

The rectory complex near the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was built in 1900. Its exterior displays historicist stylistic forms with hints of emerging Art Nouveau.

The Chapel of the Virgin Mary is also listed as an immovable cultural monument. Together, the described buildings form a cultural focal point that you can consider separately from the natural and route-related attractions.

From lowlands to hill country

The protected Přestavlcký les area extends into the cadastral territory of Stará Ves u Přerova. It protects extensively mown meadows ranging from lowlands to hill country. Přestavlcký les is also home to Carpathian and Pannonian oak-hornbeam forests.

Nature exploration here therefore brings together open meadows and forest communities that extend from the lowlands into hilly areas. This landscape focus complements the cultural buildings with its own form of discovery.

Holý kopec: trails with different profiles

The scenic route on Holý kopec follows a farm track and an unforested ridge for almost two kilometres. It offers extensive views across large parts of Moravia.

For cyclists, a cycle path follows the route from Stará Ves to the broadcasting tower on Holý kopec. Another option for orientation is the blue-marked route from Karlovice to Stará Ves: on Holý kopec, it passes close to a 46-metre-high broadcasting tower. When planning your day, you can therefore distinguish between a route focused on views and the cycling and marked routes described above.

A longstanding pilgrimage tradition throughout the year

A regular pilgrimage from Stará Ves to a spring is documented for the first Sunday in May and the first Sunday in September. If you are interested in local traditions, this detail complements the architectural and landscape themes with a custom clearly tied to specific dates.

Which accommodation suits your travel idea

When looking for accommodation in Stará Ves, you can use your preferred focus as a starting point: cultural monuments, the landscape of Přestavlcký les, trails on Holý kopec or the traditional pilgrimage dates. Families with different interests can thus structure their days around culture, nature, cycling and tradition without giving every experience equal weight.

If you would like to consider other places in your search, you can also find Dolní Nětčice, Lhota, Horní Moštěnice, Grymov, Šišma, Oldřichov, Rouské and Citov.

To the higher-level travel overview: Přerov District.