Popice – Wine, Nature and Cultural Heritage

Popice combines winemaking traditions, sacred buildings and a protected landscape to create a diverse destination. Here, you can combine wine architecture and tastings with a walk among vineyards, cultural history and nature observation. This varied character is also important when choosing accommodation: Depending on whether you mainly want to experience wine, discover historic places or explore the landscape, you will focus on different aspects during your stay.

Wine, Vineyards and Special Tastings

A regular fixture in the annual calendar is Tour de sklep, an annual wine event in Popice. During a walk through the cellars, visitors can taste at least 120 wines. This means that the focus is not only on the tasting itself, but also on the special format of the tour through the wine cellars.

The Gotberg winery building is an example of modern wine architecture. Wine tastings are offered there on a terrace with beautiful views. Sonberk Winery offers a walk through the vineyards with an audio guide. On designated days, private guided tours with a hosted wine tasting are also available by reservation. This allows you to choose between an independent tour and a visit explicitly accompanied by a guide.

A Path Through the Wine Landscape

The Popice Stations of the Cross consists of 14 marble stations between the Sonberk and Gotberg vineyards and ends at the Gate of Life. The vineyard path is freely accessible and runs directly along the Moravian Wine Trail. This makes it possible to combine a cultural destination with a walk through the wine landscape, without limiting the visit to a single building.

Church and Chapel in Popice

St. Andrew’s Church is considered the most important monument in Popice. It was originally a Romanesque building and was extensively rebuilt from 1696 to 1699. The interior is Baroque. For planning purposes, it is also relevant that the church is usually accessible during regular services. Another historic stop is the Chapel of St. Rosalia, St. Roch and St. Sebastian, which was built from 1716 to 1717.

Hochberk: Protected Nature with Rare Species

The natural experience includes the protected natural monument of Hochberk, located in the cadastral territories of Popice and Uherčice u Hustopečí. Hochberk protects xerothermic dry steppe grasslands and thermophilous Pannonian oak-hornbeam forests. The area is home to numerous endangered and specially protected plant species, as well as important invertebrate species. The most important protected plants include Tatar sea kale (Crambe tataria), white broom (Chamaecytisus albus) and hairy flax (Linum hirsutum subsp. hirsutum). The precise landscape features and protected species give this natural monument a distinctly different profile from the wine and cultural attractions in the village.

Popice as a Starting Point

Popice is located 8 km from Hustopeče. From there, the village can be reached by car, bus, train or bicycle. This specific connection complements the local wine, cultural and natural experiences with several travel options. If you are looking for a hotel in Popice, you can therefore first decide whether wine events, wineries, historic buildings or Hochberk should be the focus of your stay.

If you would like to discover other places besides Popice, these town and village pages will take you further: Kobylí, Přítluky, Nový Přerov, Novosedly Na Moravě, Sedlec U Mikulova, Dolní Věstonice, Borkovany and Pavlov.

For the overarching travel overview: Břeclav District.