• Czech Republic Guide

  • Introduction to The Czech Republic
  • Weather
  • Things not to miss
  • Getting around
  • Entry requirements
  • Money
  • Public holidays

• Explore The Czech Republic

  • Central Bohemia
  • South Bohemia
  • West Bohemia
  • North Bohemia
  • East Bohemia
  • South Moravia
  • North Moravia

• Cities

  • Brno
    
  • Olomouc
    
  • Prague
    

Czech Republic Guide

North Moravia

Štramberk

• Accommodation
• Eating

Eight kilometres east of Nový Jičin, the smokestack settlement of ŠTRAMBERK (Strallenburg; www.stramberk.cz ) is one of the best places to take your first dip into Wallachian culture. Clumped under the conic Bílá hora (not to be confused with the Bílá hora in Prague) like an ancient funeral pyre, Štramberk feels very old indeed, yet many of its wooden cottages were built as recently as the first half of the nineteenth century. Its virtue is in displaying Wallachian architecture in situ, the cottages simply constructed out of whole tree trunks, unpainted and free of tourists rather than cooped and mummified in a sanitized skanzen.