We have enjoyed this part of the Southern Bohemia countryside so much, driving through lush green country spotted with what look like solid fortified country farmhouses, completely walled in on all sides by barns, the farm house and sheltered gates. Safe and fertile.
Then to come across this lovely UNESCO inscribed peasant village, Holasovice, we were completely charmed. The countryside is green and peaceful decorated with stone remnants of war, history and whimsy.
It is heartening to see a Protected Landscape sign on the side of our route today. Ancient beech trees are protected in ancient forests in this Les Blanskey region, as are wild boar, limestone molluscs and deer, to name a few.
A firm selling sawdust-pressed briquettes have cleverly built a Czech 'Stonehenge' as a point of interest for potential clients, recycling old stones from their excavations and setting them out as an energy circle for folk interested in astral healing and positive energy absorption which they believe comes through such experiences.
Holasovice is set around a large green village square, perfect for communal peasant festivities. These pretty rural homes, many with wooden well pumps out front for drawing water, have been built in an architectural style known as ‘folk baroque’ a mid-nineteenth century conception, tho’ many of these were constructed a little later than that. Renovations have been going on since 1990 and the village has gradually repopulated.
There is nothing grand about the homes. They are simple rendered abodes with their facades and gables decorated with coloured plaster motifs. What is special, here, is that the entire village is presented in this style. Right down to the tiny chapel on the green. One of the homes even has a chicken pen in folk baroque. All so beautifully preserved.
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| Holasovice around the water pond |
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| Countryside enroute to Holasovice |
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| A Stonehenge in Czechia |
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| Protected landscape region |
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| Not all renovations are complete |
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