Zastávka: Hotels and Accommodation

The forest park in Zastávka is a quiet place for walking or relaxing and has benches.

A walking trail in Zastávka follows a forest path along the narrow-gauge railway to the former site of the Důl Ferdinand mine.

The Hornické slavnosti are held annually in Zastávka on 9 September to mark Miners’ Day and commemorate the town’s mining past.

The permanent exhibition in the rooms of the Regionální informační centrum Zastávka documents the development of hard-coal mining in Zastávka, as well as the history of local industrial companies, schools, sports clubs and theatre ensembles.

Admission to the permanent exhibition on mining history at the Regionální informační centrum Zastávka is free.

The Důl Julius mine had its own coal-washing plant, briquette factory, steam hoisting engine and cableway.

The industrial complex of the Důl Herring mine in Zastávka included coking plants, a brickworks and the production of decorative moulded bricks.

Today’s Chapel of sv. Jana Křtitele in Zastávka was a guild room after 1850, where miners gathered before descending into the Julius mine; in 1911, the building was converted into a chapel and consecrated.

The Regionální informační centrum Zastávka is located in the immediate vicinity of the railway station building. The Minihernička Permoníček at the Regionální informační centrum Zastávka offers children games and toys while they are staying in the café.

Zastávka has a second railway station for the narrow-gauge railway operated by the Muzeum průmyslových železnic; small carriages take visitors from there to Zbýšov.

The Muzeum průmyslových železnic offers train rides in both directions between Zbýšov-Důl Jindřich and Zastávka u Brna.

More local pages: Omice, Řícmanice, Drahonín, Černvír, Přibice, Ochoz U Tišnova, Blažovice, Bilovice Nad Svitavou.

To the higher-level travel overview: Okres Brno-Venkov.