{"id":1517,"date":"2024-02-15T00:40:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/?page_id=1517"},"modified":"2024-02-15T00:40:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:40:29","slug":"czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/es\/czech-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/czech-republic-oleh-morhun-xxi3wnbvxsY-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/czech-republic-oleh-morhun-xxi3wnbvxsY-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/czech-republic-oleh-morhun-xxi3wnbvxsY-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/czech-republic-oleh-morhun-xxi3wnbvxsY-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/czech-republic-oleh-morhun-xxi3wnbvxsY-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/czech-republic-oleh-morhun-xxi3wnbvxsY-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/czech-republic-oleh-morhun-xxi3wnbvxsY-unsplash-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/czech-republic-oleh-morhun-xxi3wnbvxsY-unsplash-374x249.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ee529d9b1bfb2df85d7b128615d25d5c wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Czech Republic Free Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d1d70de141d68f953d971d34f43cb648 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iQXKWRSkBjc\">Prague Free Tour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2eae24e82fb061983c28f21e018d00a6 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BGRhCDKz6lQ\">Brno Free Tour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d4fc219cce2713ee1113e16094224432 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jOyfVihfb3A\">Pilsen Free Tour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Czech Republic<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/landlocked-country\">landlocked country<\/a> located in central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Europe\">Europe<\/a>. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/comprises\">comprises<\/a> the historical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/province-ancient-Roman-government\">provinces<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Bohemia\">Bohemia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Moravia\">Moravia<\/a> along with the southern tip of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Silesia\">Silesia<\/a>, collectively often called the Czech Lands. In 2016 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/nation-state\">country<\/a> adopted the name \u201cCzechia\u201d as a shortened, informal name for the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/26\/183626-050-842F3B8A\/World-Data-Locator-Map-Czech-Republic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/26\/183626-050-842F3B8A\/World-Data-Locator-Map-Czech-Republic.jpg\" alt=\"Czech Republic\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/26\/183626-050-842F3B8A\/World-Data-Locator-Map-Czech-Republic.jpg\">Czech Republic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite its landlocked location, there were brief periods in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Middle-Ages\">Middle Ages<\/a> during which Bohemia had access to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Baltic-Sea\">Baltic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Adriatic-Sea\">Adriatic<\/a> seacoasts\u2014which no doubt was on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/William-Shakespeare\">William Shakespeare<\/a>\u2019s mind when he set much of his play <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/The-Winters-Tale\">The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/a><\/em> there. A region of rolling hills and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/mountain-landform\">mountains<\/a>, Bohemia is dominated by the national capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Prague\">Prague<\/a>. Set on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Vltava-River\">Vltava River<\/a>, this picturesque city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/technology\/bridge-engineering\">bridges<\/a> and spires is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/unique\">unique<\/a> work of generations of artists brought in by the rulers of Bohemia. Perhaps only the French are as focused on their capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Paris\">Paris<\/a>, as the Czechs are on theirs; of the two, Prague has a more magical quality for many. Called \u201cthe handsomest city of Europe\u201d since the 18th century, it has intoxicated writers, poets, and musicians alike. While Prague was the birthplace of the writer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Franz-Kafka\"> Franz Kafka <\/a>and the poet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Rainer-Maria-Rilke\">Rainer Maria Rilke<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Brno\">Brno<\/a>, Moravia\u2019s largest city, was the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Gregor-Mendel\">Gregor Mendel<\/a>\u2019s groundbreaking genetic experiments in the 19th century and the birthplace of contemporary novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Milan-Kundera\">Milan Kundera<\/a>. Moravians are as proud of their vineyards and wine as Bohemians are of their breweries and the Pilsner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/beer\">beer<\/a> that originated in the town of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Plzen\">Plze\u0148<\/a> (Pilsen), which is also noted as the site of the \u0160koda Works\u2014a heavy industrial complex that originated with the Habsburg monarchy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Moravia\">Moravia<\/a> was equally endowed with skilled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/labor-childbirth\">labour<\/a>, which helped make Brno into one of the leading industrial towns in textiles and engineering during the 19th century and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ostrava\">Ostrava<\/a>, in the north, into a major coal-mining region, thanks to the vast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/fossil-fuel\">fossil fuel<\/a> deposits stretching over from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Silesia\">Silesia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/43\/151243-050-F2D56590\/tower-square-Czech-Republic-Domazlice.jpg\">Doma\u017elice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 13th-century tower on the main square in Doma\u017elice, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/63\/114563-004-27365EEE\/Mlada-Boleslav-Czech-Republic.jpg\">Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History is always close at hand in the Czech Republic, where stunning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/technology\/castle-architecture\">castles<\/a> such as Karl\u0161tejn (former keep of the royal crown of St. Wenceslas) and manor houses dot the landscape and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/medieval\">medieval<\/a> town centres abound. During its 1,000-year history, the country has changed shape and reshuffled its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/population-biology-and-anthropology\">population<\/a>. As the kingdom of Bohemia, it reached its zenith of wealth and power during the 13th and 14th centuries. Through a multitude of cultural, economic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/ecclesiastical\">ecclesiastical<\/a>, and dynastic links, Bohemian kings became directly involved in the affairs of the German rulers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Holy-Roman-Empire\">Holy Roman Empire<\/a> and opened the country to German colonization, which brought prosperity through silver mining and rapid urbanization. Prague, with the oldest university north of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Alps\">Alps<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Charles-University\">Charles University<\/a>, 1348), functioned as a royal and imperial capital. However, German colonization, which soon accounted for one-third of the total population and disadvantaged the majority Czechs, brought the seeds of discontent, resulting in an ugly, insolvable conflict in the 20th century. In the early 15th century Bohemia witnessed the Hussite revolution, a pre-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Reformation\">Reformation<\/a> movement named for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Jan-Hus\">Jan Hus<\/a>, a follower of the English theologian and reformer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/John-Wycliffe\">John Wycliffe<\/a>. Religious antagonism prevailed over ethnic tensions when Czechs and Germans jointly led the Protestant uprising that started the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Thirty-Years-War\">Thirty Years\u2019 War<\/a> (1618\u201348) against the Catholic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/House-of-Habsburg\">Habsburgs<\/a>, the Austro-German <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/dynasty\">dynasty<\/a> that ruled Bohemia from 1526 to 1918. After the Habsburg victory, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/German-language\">German language<\/a> replaced Czech for almost two centuries\u2014until the Czechs experienced an extraordinary linguistic and cultural revival that coincided with the revolutions of 1848 and the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/industrialization\">industrialization<\/a>. In historian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Frantisek-Palacky\">Franti\u0161ek Palack\u00fd<\/a> and composers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Bedrich-Smetana\">Bed\u0159ich Smetana<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Antonin-Dvorak\">Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k<\/a>, Czech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/nationalism\">nationalism<\/a> found its ideal spokesmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/38\/133538-050-668FB114\/Tomas-Masaryk.jpg\">Tom\u00e1\u0161 Masaryk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/97\/28597-004-588192FD\/Edvard-Benes.jpg\">Edvard Bene\u0161<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/39\/61239-050-2ECF086D\/troops-Czechs-Soviet-Prague-forces-Czechoslovakia-reform-August-21-1968.jpg\">Soviet invasion of Prague<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Czechoslovaks confronting Soviet troops in Prague, August 21, 1968. Soviet forces had invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the reform movement known as the Prague Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After six years of brutal Nazi occupation (with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/legacy\">legacy<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Holocaust\">Holocaust<\/a> and the postwar mass expulsion of some three million Bohemian and Slovak [Carpathian] Germans), Czechoslovakia was reconstituted, this time without Ruthenia (Transcarpathian Ukraine), which was annexed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Soviet-Union\">Soviet Union<\/a>. A communist coup in February 1948 sealed Czechoslovakia\u2019s fate as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Eastern-bloc\">Soviet bloc<\/a> for the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Cold-War\">Cold War<\/a>\u2014though briefly, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Prague-Spring\">Prague Spring<\/a> of 1968, a reform movement took over, only to be crushed by Soviet military invasion in August of that year. Still, that experience of freedom produced an underground dissident movement, later called Charter 77, whose leader, playwright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Vaclav-Havel\">V\u00e1clav Havel<\/a>, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/propelled\">propelled<\/a> from prison to the royal castle, becoming the first president of postcommunist Czechoslovakia with the fall of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Berlin-Wall\">Berlin Wall<\/a> in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last modification of the modern Czech nation-state was inaugurated on January 1, 1993, when the union with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Slovakia\">Slovakia<\/a> was dissolved. As the Czech Republic, the new country joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/North-Atlantic-Treaty-Organization\">North Atlantic Treaty Organization<\/a> (NATO) in 1999 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/European-Union\">European Union<\/a> (EU) in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. <a href=\"https:\/\/premium.britannica.com\/premium-membership\/?utm_source=inline&amp;utm_medium=mendel&amp;utm_campaign=evergreen\">Subscribe Now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Land of the Czech Republic<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Relief<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/08\/62408-050-6BDD675A\/Czech-Republic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/08\/62408-050-6BDD675A\/Czech-Republic.jpg\" alt=\"Czech Republic\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/08\/62408-050-6BDD675A\/Czech-Republic.jpg\">Czech Republic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/nation-state\">country<\/a> is bordered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Poland\">Poland<\/a> to the north and northeast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Slovakia\">Slovakia<\/a> to the east, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Austria\">Austria<\/a> to the south, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> to the west and northwest. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Bohemian-Massif\">Bohemian Massif<\/a> occupies the major portion of the Czech Republic. It consists of a large, roughly ovoid elevated basin (the Bohemian Plateau) encircled by mountains divided into six major groups. In the southwest are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Sumava-Mountains\">\u0160umava Mountains<\/a>, which include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Bohemian-Forest\">Bohemian Forest<\/a> (B\u00f6hmerwald). In the west are the Berounka River highlands. In the northwest, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ore-Mountains\">Ore Mountains<\/a> (Czech: Kru\u0161n\u00e9 hory; German: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ore-Mountains\">Erzgebirge<\/a>) form the frontier with Germany. The point at which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Elbe-River\">Elbe (Labe) River<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/breaches\">breaches<\/a> this range is the lowest in the country, with an elevation of 384 feet (117 metres). The so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Sudeten\">Sudeten<\/a> system of mountains (a name never applied in the Czech language) in the northeast forms most of the border with Poland west of the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ostrava\">Ostrava<\/a>. The highest point in the Czech Republic, Mount Sn\u011b\u017eka, with an elevation of 5,256 feet (1,602 metres), is found in the major segment of this system, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Giant-Mountains\">Giant Mountains<\/a> (Czech: Krkono\u0161e; German: Riesengebirge). Farther to the east is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Oder-River\">Oder (Odra) River<\/a> lowland, a small fringe along the Polish border. Finally, southeast of the Bohemian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/Plateau\">Plateau<\/a> are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Bohemian-Moravian-Highlands\">Bohemian-Moravian Highlands<\/a>, which include the spectacular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Moravian-Karst\">Moravian Karst<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/60\/95560-050-823974AE\/Canola-fields-bloom-countryside-Telc-Czech-Republic.jpg\">Tel\u010d, Czech Republic: canola<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canola fields in bloom in the countryside near Tel\u010d, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the east the Outer Carpathian Depressions, known to geographers as the Moravian-Silesian Beskids, include the valleys of the upper Oder and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Morava-River-Europe\">Morava<\/a> rivers and the headstreams of the Dyje. Along the Czech-Slovak border rise the Little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Carpathian-Mountains\">Carpathian<\/a> (B\u00edl\u00e9 Karpaty) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Javorniky\">Javorn\u00edky<\/a> ranges, the westernmost of the Western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Carpathian-Mountains\">Carpathian Mountains<\/a> that dominate Slovakia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drainage and soils<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/83\/151283-050-A3D56ADC\/Elbe-River-Usti-nad-Labem-Czech-Republic.jpg\">\u00dast\u00ed nad Labem<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Elbe River at \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Czech Republic lies in the headwater area of the central European watershed. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Elbe-River\">Elbe River<\/a> rises near the Czech-Polish border and sweeps southwestward across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Bohemia\">Bohemia<\/a>, receiving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Jizera-River\">Jizera<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Vltava-River\">Vltava<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ohre-River\">Oh\u0159e<\/a> rivers before flowing northward into Germany. The Vltava is navigable from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Prague\">Prague<\/a> to M\u011bln\u00edk, where it empties into the Elbe. From that point onward river traffic can travel all the way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Hamburg-Germany\">Hamburg<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Morava-River-Europe\">Morava River<\/a>, flowing south toward the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Danube-River\">Danube<\/a> (Dunaj) River, drains most of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Moravia\">Moravia<\/a> in the east. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Oder-River\">Oder River<\/a> rises in the northeastern Czech Republic and flows northward into Poland. There also are many smaller rivers of little economic importance. Larger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/river\">rivers<\/a> such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Vltava-River\">Vltava<\/a> are sources of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/hydroelectric-power\">hydroelectric power<\/a>. The country is rich in mineral springs, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/groundwater\">groundwater<\/a> reserves are extensively used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/83\/163583-050-1988768E\/Orlik-Castle-Vltava-River-Czech-Republic.jpg\">Orl\u00edk Castle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orl\u00edk Castle on the Vltava River, south-central Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/soil\">soil<\/a> profile of the Czech Republic consists of some rich, black chernozems and good-quality brown soils in the drier and lower areas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/Podzol\">Podzols<\/a> are found in the wet districts, and stony mountain soils are typical at high elevations. Alluvial soils occur in the river <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/basins\">basins<\/a>, and heavy clay soils are found in the eastern ridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Climate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Czech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/climate-meteorology\">climate<\/a> is mixed. Continental influences are marked by large fluctuations in both temperature and precipitation, while moderating oceanic influences diminish from west to east. In general, temperatures decrease with increasing elevation but are relatively uniform across the lower portions of the country. The mean annual temperature at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Cheb\">Cheb<\/a> in the extreme west is 45 \u00b0F (7 \u00b0C) and rises to only 48 \u00b0F (9 \u00b0C) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Brno\">Brno<\/a> in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Moravia\">Moravia<\/a>. High <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/temperature\">temperatures<\/a> can exceed 90 \u00b0F (32 \u00b0C) in Prague during July, and low temperatures may drop as low as 0 \u00b0F (\u221217 \u00b0C) in Cheb during February. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/growing-season\">growing season<\/a> is about 200 days in the south but less than half that in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/mountain-landform\">mountains<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/precipitation\">precipitation<\/a> ranges from 18 inches (450 mm) in the central Bohemian basins to more than 60 inches (1500 mm) on windward slopes of the Krkono\u0161e Mountains of the north. Maximum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/precipitation\">precipitation<\/a> falls during July, while the minimum occurs in February. There are no recognizable climatic zones but rather a succession of small and varied districts; climate thus follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/topography\">topography<\/a> in contributing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/diversity\">diversity<\/a> of the natural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/environment\">environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plant and animal life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although large areas of the original forest cover have been cleared for cultivation and for timber, woodlands remain a characteristic feature of the Czech landscape. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/plant\/oak\">Oak<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/plant\/beech\">beech<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/plant\/spruce\">spruce<\/a> dominate the forest zones in ascending order of elevation. In the highest reaches can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/taiga\">taiga<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/tundra\">tundra<\/a> vegetation characteristic of more-northerly or more-elevated regions elsewhere in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Europe\">Europe<\/a>. The timberline runs at about 4,500 feet (1,400 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/metre-measurement\">metres<\/a>) above <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/sea-level\">sea level<\/a>. At these higher elevations, as in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Giant-Mountains\">Giant Mountains<\/a>, the tree cover below the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/timberline\">timberline<\/a> consists of little more than dwarf <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/plant\/pine\">pine<\/a>. The Alpine zone supports grasses and low-growing bushes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country\u2019s wildlife is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/extensive\">extensive<\/a> and varied. Large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/mammal\">mammals<\/a> include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/bear\">bears<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/wolf\">wolves<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/lynx-mammal\">lynx<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/wildcat-mammal-Felis-silvestris\">wildcats<\/a> (<em>Felis sylvestris<\/em>). Smaller mammals, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/marmot\">marmots<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/otter\">otters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/marten\">martens<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/mink\">minks<\/a>, also inhabit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/forest\">forests<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/wetland\">wetlands<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/game-meat\">Game<\/a> birds, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/pheasant\">pheasants<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/partridge\">partridges<\/a>, wild <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/goose-bird\">geese<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/duck\">ducks<\/a>, are common. Rarer species, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/eagle-bird\">eagles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/vulture\">vultures<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/osprey-bird\">ospreys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/stork\">storks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/eagle-owl\">eagle owls<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/bustard\">bustards<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/capercaillie\">capercaillies<\/a>, generally are protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/61\/138761-050-8170BA7F\/Jizera-Mountains-Czech-Republic.jpg\">Jizera Mountains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The preservation of the natural heritage is an important goal of the Czech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/government\">government<\/a>. Rare or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/endangered-species\">endangered species<\/a> such as the mouflon (a mountain sheep) are bred in game reserves, and nature reserves have been created to preserve especially important landscapes, notably the \u0160umava Forest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Moravian-Karst\">Moravian Karst<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Jizera-Mountains\">Jizera Mountains<\/a>. Tourists are given controlled access to the reserve areas. Krkono\u0161e National Park, established in 1963, protects glacial landscapes and Alpine vegetation as well as some relict boreal-Arctic species, such as the Alpine shrew (<em>Sorex alpinus<\/em>); despite these preservation efforts, however, the park has been extensively developed as a ski resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the information come from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/editor\/The-Editors-of-Encyclopaedia-Britannica\/4419\">The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Republic Free Tour Prague Free Tour Brno Free Tour Pilsen Free Tour Information: Czech Republic, landlocked country located in central Europe. It comprises the historical provinces of Bohemia and Moravia along with the southern tip of Silesia, collectively often called the Czech Lands. 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