Moravian Wine Trails

Visit South Moravia - each of 10 wine regions has its own range of wine trails.

Visitors have a choice of one-day and overnight trips to acquaint with folklore, wine and sights on the route of 1200 km long network of cycling paths.

Moravian Wine Trails are a long-term project of cultural heritage protection and development of wine tourism in South Moravia. From 1999, it has been gradually implemented in collaboration with 280 wine villages and many other partners.

In every village on wine trails you can find an information panel with a map of routes of the area. Trail maps are distinguished by frequency of automobile transport and the quality of trail surface. It makes possible to plan the route by quiet roads, which is useful for parents with children.

The Moravian Wine Trail makes a backbone route of the unique network of regional bicycle routes passing through the picturesque countryside of South Moravia, which bears the name of Moravian wine trails. This wine trail connects the ancient town of Znojmo with the town of Uherské Hradiště and offers a wandering through a region, which is decorated with wine, rich history and lively traditions. The red marked Moravian Wine Trail passes through all the Moravian wine sub-areas and crosses 7 of 10 lines of local wine trails. There are 70 wine villages, dozen of protected natural areas and important historical and architectural monuments of the region on the trail.

The Moravian Wine Trail belongs together with the Prague - Vienna Greenway and the Krakow - Moravia - Vienna Greenway in the best-known trails in Central Europe, which is documented by the Prize for the best project in Europe adwarded by the European Association of Greenways.

Set for the region of wine and monuments, go through 300 km of orchards and vineyards of South Moravia, taste products of work and enjoy the hospitality of local people.

Monuments on the Moravian Wine Trail:

Znojmo - royal town from 1226, national cultural monument - the Romance rotunda of St. Catherine from 11th century, an extensive system of underground tunnels and cellars from the 15th – 17th century, the Loucky monastery founded in 1190 by Konrad Otto of Znojmo.
Nový Šaldorf - Sedlešovice - Blue Cellars comprising 181 cellars and winepress houses
Popice - ancient wine village with cellar streets, the birthplace of Charles Sealsfield (real name Karl Postl)
Havranicke Heath - part of the Podyjí National Park
Šatov - Painted Cellar - work of a native Maximilian Appeltauer
Slup - technical monument of a water-mill
Jaroslavice - Renaissance chateau from the 16th century with a park, about 90 wine cellars in 3 wine streets - large wooden presses preserved from the turn of the 18th and 19th century
Hrádek – Rotunda of St. Ulrich
Drnholec - extensive cellar lanes, Renaissance chateau, burgess-houses from the 18th century
Novosedly - the largest wine-growing village in the Czech Republic, Tuscan column with Madonna from the 17th century
Mikulov - Renaissance chateau from the 16th century, the historic square with several Renaissance and Baroque houses and a plague column, the Jewish ghetto and a cemetery with the famous graveyard of the Moravian Rabbis
PLA Pálava - an area of 75 square km
Pavlov - wine houses with elements of Baroque architecture, rich archaeological locality, monumental ruin of Děvičky Castle above the village
Dolní Věstonice - archaeological exhibition - findings from mammoth hunters – The Venus of Dolní Věstonice
Pouzdřany - traditional production of straw wines, a national nature reserve - Pouzdřanská steppe
Hustopeče - Empire house with two-story Gothic cellars, wine permanent exhibition
Velké Pavlovice - Baroque Church of the Assumption from 1680
Bořetice – the most beautiful example of cellar architecture, 260 cellars
Kobylí - one of the dominant village in the production of red wines
Klobouky u Brna – windmill
Čejkovice - Gothic fortress (now the Castle Hotel) and extensive wine cellars of Templar, TG Masaryk Memorial Hall
Mutěnice - A rarity in Mutěnice is an area with almost five hundred wine cellars in the part of the village known as “Bůdy”. Each of these cellars has a distinct character and most of them are decorated with ornaments from Moravian Slovakia. Wine specialty of the village is a mixture of Blaufränkisch and Blauer Portugieser - the so-called garnet of Moravian Slovakia
Kyjov - Renaissance chateau and a town hall, a permanent wine exhibition
Bzenec - one of the first wine cooperative was founded here in 1921 – production of Riesling called Bzenecká lipka
Buchlovice - Renaissance chateau designed by D. Martinelli of the early 18th century, Buchlov Castle
Tupesy - Ceramics Museum - dwelling of potter
Velehrad - important pilgrimage site, Cistercian monastery
Modrá - Archaeological museum - a fortified settlement from the 9th century
Uherské Hradiště – town fortification from the 14th and 15th century, Jesuit monastery, Art Nouveau synagogue