Plzeň-City District: Hotels and Accommodation

Plzeň-City District offers a specific starting point for different travel interests: In Pilsen, a cycling route leads to Hradiště, where there are play features for children and opportunities for swimming. This suits a trip plan that aims to combine cycling, activities for children, and swimming. Those who would like to book a hotel in Plzeň-City District can then continue their accommodation search.

Experiences

The amphitheatre at Pilsen Zoo hosts falconry demonstrations featuring flying birds and explanations by a falconer.

Techmania Science Center offers interactive exhibitions, a 3D planetarium, workshop and laboratory programmes, films on an interactive globe, and science shows. It is housed in historic Škoda Works buildings. This brings interactive science activities and the historic setting of the Škoda Works together in one place.

Food and Drink

Large wooden barrels are still used in the brewery cellars to produce small quantities of Pilsner Urquell. The tour of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery includes a tasting of unfiltered, unpasteurized beer drawn from oak lagering barrels in the historic brewery cellars.

DEPO2015 is a cultural venue for exhibitions, conferences, events, and festivals. DEPO2015 also hosts the DEPO Street Food Market, with food stalls and food trucks.

Nature

The Bolevec pond system in Pilsen consists of ten ponds. It has cycling paths, hiking trails, inline skating routes, and two accessible circular routes. The area can be reached by public transport.

Sofronka Arboretum contains more than 60 pine species from around the world.

Culture

Several of the Bolevec ponds were created in the middle of the 15th century. At 102.26 metres, the tower of St. Bartholomew's Cathedral is the tallest church tower in the Czech Republic. After climbing nearly 300 steps, visitors can enjoy views over Pilsen and the wider region. Construction of the cathedral began when the city was founded in 1295 and was completed in the early 16th century.

The permanent exhibition “Tady žili Židé.” is located in the upper galleries of the Great Synagogue. The Semler Residence is the only realization in the Loos style based on the Raumplan principle and can be visited as part of guided tours.

At the Puppet Museum, visitors can move the puppets themselves and put on their own theatre performance on stage. The historic visitor route through the underground is approximately 800 metres long and runs nine to twelve metres below ground.

Excursions

The Romanesque Rotunda of St. Peter and Paul can be reached on foot via a marked educational trail and offers views of the surrounding area. It is one of the oldest intact surviving church buildings of its kind in the Czech Republic.

Near Plzeň-City District, Radyně Castle was founded by Charles IV in the middle of the 14th century to protect the Prague–Bavaria trade route.

Other places in the selection: Bolevec, Mokrouše, Štěnovický Borek, Nezbavětice, Nezvěstice, Vstiš, Radčice, Pilsen, Starý Plzenec, Chrást, Chválenice, Dýšina, Kyšice, Letkov, Šťáhlavy, Tymákov, Lhůta, Losiná.

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To the higher-level travel overview: Pilsen.