Lešetice: Hotels and Accommodation
The Vojna Lešetice Memorial is the only surviving communist labor camp in the Czech Republic. In 2010, the sculpture “Obětem komunismu” was installed in front of the main building of the Vojna Memorial in Lešetice.
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Culture and History
Sightseeing Route A includes the camp grounds with reconstructed historical buildings of the former command building, detention cell, the so-called bunker, infirmary, cultural center, accommodation building G, and other buildings. In the command building, the route also includes an exhibition on persecution after February 1948 and the Third Resistance.
Sightseeing Route B includes the permanent exhibition “Uranium in Czech History.” It covers the development of uranium mining over the past two centuries and its impact on science, technology, and society. Route C includes the “ORBIS PICTUS: EUROPA” gallery of contemporary European visual art.
A lookout tower at the Vojna Memorial offers panoramic views of the surrounding landscape.
Nature and Trails
Around Lešetice, spoil heaps are reminders of uranium ore mining. Cycling Route 302A leads from the Vojna Memorial via Zavržice and branches off from Route 302. The Chapel of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus stands in Lešetice village square.
A route connects the Vojna Memorial, Lešetice, Žežice, Brod, the railway station in Příbram, and Svatá Hora.
Geographical Location
From Příbram, the Vojna Memorial can be reached via road I/66 in the direction of Milín. At Lešetice, turn right onto a local road toward Lešetice and the Vojna Memorial. The memorial is approximately 8 km from Příbram.
Other places in the same higher-level area: Kňovice, Kozárovice, Občov, Koupě, Hudčice, Štětkovice, Rozmital - Skuhrov and Milín.
To the higher-level travel overview: Příbram District.
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