Location: Ostrava
Top Things to do in Ostrava
Top 10 Things to do in Ostrava, Moravia
Ostrava (Polish: Ostrawa, German: Ostrau or Mährisch Ostrau) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and is the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It is 15 km (9 mi) from the border with Poland, at the meeting point of four rivers: the Odra, Opava, Ostravice and Lučina. In terms of both population and area Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic, the second largest city in Moravia, and the largest city in Czech Silesia. It straddles the border of the two historic provinces of Moravia and Silesia. The population was around 300,000 in 2013. The wider conurbation – which also includes the towns of Bohumín, Doubrava, Havířov, Karviná, Orlová, Petřvald and Rychvald – is home to about 500,000 people, making it the largest urban area in the Czech Republic apart from the capital, Prague.
Restaurants in Ostrava
1. Michal Colliery
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5.0 based on 48 reviews
The country's only National Cultural Heritage Site, this museum houses exhibits from the Ostrava and Karvina mines.
2. Ostravice River
3. New City Hall Viewing Tower
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4.5 based on 301 reviews
At 73 meters, the tower offers sweeping views of the Ostrava basin, the mountains of Beskydy to the south, the Jeseniky mountains to the west and the Upper Silesian plateau to the east.
Reviewed By milis2013 - Prague, Czech Republic
The building itself is generous and the tower invites... Come in and look! No exhausting climbing numbers of steps...you will get up comfortably by lift and see the whole region: the city, the mines and ironworks, the famous football stadium Bazaly as well as the beautiful Ostravice river, the Beskydy mountains and even Poland neighbours! To visit Ostrava means to see it first from this tower. In order to get the idea of the whole region and of the city!
4. Zoo Ostrava
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4.5 based on 559 reviews
5. Landek Park Mining Museum
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4.5 based on 202 reviews
Reviewed By milis2013 - Prague, Czech Republic
We made a reservation by phone in advance. We took a bus, then take into consideration some upto 20 minutes of walk till you arrive at meeting place (behind Harenda Barborka). The guides both in the mine and at the museum are old miners, find of their job. And you feel it from their every word, their effort to explain, what, where, why. They make the tour most atractive and you are getting back with a lot of information. You will go through mine some 420 metres below and so you will get the very exact idea how difficult the miners' work was and still is. The museum shows the rescue facilities, the guide added a lot of stories. We recommend to visit this place and many many thanks to the excellent guides!
6. Svet Techniky
7. Dolni Vitkovice
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4.5 based on 536 reviews
In 1998 after 170 years of continuous production, the manufacturing of pig-iron in so-called Lower Area was discontinued. VITKOVICE MACHINERY GROUP, the Moravian-Silesian Region and the Union of ,,The Lower Area of Vitkovice" now provide the visitors an opportunity of visit/tour of the area including Hlubina mine, coking plant, blast furnaces and the other technological facilities of metallurgical basic industry and energetics. Since 2002, the area of Hlubina mine, coking plant, and the blast furnaces has been a National Cultural Monument. In 2008, the Lower Area of Vitkovice was inscribed on the the European Cultural Heritage list. The objective of the reactivation project is not only to preserve the NCM but to give it a new, useful and modern face - by gradually changing the space and buildings of the NCM into the university, the research and development and cultural facility including free time zones. Visit us and you will see amazing technical heritage of the past and you will learn the great future of our National Cultural Monument! VITKOVICE MACHINERY GROUP contributes with the visits to the National Cultural Monument to the fulfilment of the project titled Ostrava by means of visits - The European City of Culture.
Reviewed By 723kate_inab - Ostrava, Czech Republic
A great place with lots of varied activities available (science museum, industrial museum/tour of old coking plant and blast furnace, trampoline center, cafes, cinema...). Impressive, picturesque surroundings; great at any age.
8. Letni koupaliste Ostrava poruba
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4.5 based on 17 reviews
