Vřesina: Hotels and Accommodations

In summer, Skalka Family Park in Vřesina offers up to 55 entertainment attractions. The facilities also include a 350-metre-long ski slope, a children's ski park, and a covered, artificially cooled ice rink.

Trails and Landscape

Cycle route 6199 runs through Vřesina from Dolní Lhota via wooded areas and local roads to the village centre and onward towards the Mexiko settlement. The Radegast-Silesia Cycle Route runs through Vřesina together with the marked cycle route 6199. The Pěšina Jeníčky–U Peterka route is designated in Vřesina as a walking loop. Štefanova skála is one of Vřesina's tourist destinations in the “Bodies of Water and Watercourses” category.

Culture and History

The Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Vřesina was consecrated by Bishop František Václav Lobkowicz on 13 June 1998. A wayside shrine was unveiled and consecrated on 5 October 2014 at the site of an old tragedy. Historical steam operation on the Svinov–Poruba–Vřesina line began on 2 August 1925.

The “Mařák” tradition, in which winter is symbolically driven away and spring is welcomed, was observed irregularly in Vřesina from 1905 onward and continues to this day. The chapel with a bell tower near the school in Vřesina is classified as an immovable cultural monument.

Transport Connections

Vřesina is served by tram line 5; the timetable lists the line between “Poruba, Vřesinská” and “Budišovice, Zátiší”.

Vratimov, Velká Polom, Zbyslavice, Čavisov, Ostrava, Dolní Lhota, Stará Ves Nad Ondřejnicí, Václavovice

For the higher-level travel overview: Ostrava-City District.