Javůrek: Hotels and accommodation
Three quarters of the Javůrek area, including the settlement of Šmelcovna and a larger built-up part of Javůrek, lie within the Údolí Bílého potoka Nature Park.
File:Forest road in the winter near Javůrek, Czechia.jpg
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Nature and landscape
The part of the Údolí Bílého potoka Nature Park located in Javůrek is a wooded landscape in a narrow, rocky valley along the Bílý potok stream. The natural character of the Údolí Bílého potoka Nature Park provides a habitat for a wide variety of forest animal species. In the eastern part of Javůrek, near the northern municipal boundary, there is also the “Rozsypaná” Natura 2000 site, featuring valuable scree slopes and ravine forests.
Culture and history
A chapel stands in the village square of Javůrek. It was built in 1834 as the Chapel of Saint Florian and rebuilt and reconsecrated in 1940 as the Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. In the vicinity of Javůrek, in Šmelcovna, stands the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, dating from 1905.
Kubův most is the only surviving bridge of the former Báňská horská cesta, now called Železná. The Boží muka wayside shrine at the crossroads to Domašov and Lesní Hluboké is an important immovable cultural monument in Javůrek and was built in 1807.
Stříbrnické štoly is a registered significant landscape feature in Javůrek at a former mining site. In the vicinity of Javůrek, near the settlement of Šmelcovna, fragments of the masonry structures of a formerly extensive iron ore processing complex can be found under the name “Železářská huť”.
Hiking and cycling
In the vicinity of Javůrek, Šmelcovna is a popular destination for hikers and cyclists. The first kilometre of the route from Javůrek to Šmelcovna follows a dirt track to Javůrecká hájenka.
Since 1902, “Vítání jara” has been held in Šmelcovna every first Sunday of spring, during which Morana is thrown into the Bílý potok stream. A 45-kilometre cycling trip to Šmelcovna leads via Javůrecká hájenka and through the Bílý potok valley. Another cycling route leads from Šmelcovna along the uphill section of the Železná stezka in the direction of Javůrek.
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