Liběchov: Hotels and Accommodation

Liběchov combines a historic chateau complex with artistically carved sandstone formations and distinctive sacred buildings. Between landscaped gardens, preserved parts of a medieval water castle and the reliefs by Václav Levý, a multifaceted picture of the town emerges.

Culture and Chateau Complex

The Liběchov chateau complex includes a symmetrically designed garden decorated with sculptures, as well as an English park with three bridges and an artistically designed watercourse of the Liběchovka. The accessible chateau garden features garden vases and a waterfall by Václav Levý, and also contains the statue of Perseus by Matyáš Braun. F. M. Kaňka built a new structure at Liběchov Chateau between 1720 and 1730. The original round water castle from the 14th century is largely preserved.

The Church of St. Gall is a single-nave Baroque building from 1733–1734, created by rebuilding an older Gothic church; it is accessible during Mass. The Chapel of St. Dismas and the Holy Sepulchre is a simple octagonal structure with a dome and lantern. A rectangular nave was added to its west side in 1903.

Klácelka and the Sandstone Reliefs

Klácelka is a cave and, at the same time, a sandstone block with reliefs created by the sculptor Václav Levý in the 1840s. The entrance is designed as a rectangular portal with an ornamental frame and a drapery arch. Inside the cave are shallow rock reliefs based on motifs from J. W. Goethe’s fable “Lišák Ferina”, using designs by the French caricaturist Grandville.

The area in front of Klácelka Cave is called Blaník. There, Václav Levý created reliefs of Jan Žižka, Prokop Holý, Zdeněk Zásmucký and dwarfs forging weapons for the Blaník knights. Klácelka Cave lies directly on a marked blue hiking trail.

Other works include Harfenice, a massive sandstone block with sculptures from 1841. These include a female figure with a harp, seven large human heads and the artificially carved U ještěra Cave.

Cycling Route

The “Labská vinařská stezka” cycling route passes through Liběchov. It forms part of the supraregional Labská trasa, which continues in Germany as the “Elbe Radweg”, as well as the international Praha–Berlín route (KČT 2) and thus the European EuroVelo 7 route (Nordkapp–Malta).

Other Places

Other places: Dobřeň, Obříství, Stránka, Liblice, Kly, Zálezlice, Kadlín, Vidim.

To the main travel overview: Mělník District.