Stage 6. Kasejovice – Nepomuk
From: Kasejovice
To: Nepomuk
Length: 16 km
Height profile: 257 m 365 m
Route description
The stage is easy and short, mostly flat, and can be easily combined with the subsequent stage to Plánice.
This recommended stage is the shortest of all on the route and follows the red marker all the way to Nepomuk. After leaving Kasejovice, before the forest, there is a turnoff to the former gold mine of St. James, which was closed in the middle of the 20th century. In the middle of the forests of the Pod Štědrým Nature Park, the mood of the high Baroque takes hold at the Životice castle, which is not open to the public, but you can still admire it from afar from the Životice pond. Through the quiet villages of Podhůří, Mohelnice and Tojice you will come to Dvorce with the Nepomuk railway station, from where it is another 2 km up the hill to the town itself, where the martyr St. John of Nepomuk was born. The baroque church of St. John of Nepomuk, near Augustin Němejc square, was constructed to commemorate the life and legend of this Czech national saint. The pilgrims can also visit the nearby Museum of Saint John. Above the town on a hill stands the baroque castle Zelená Hora, to which the discovery of a forgery of the Zelená Hora manuscript from the 19th century is linked.
Points of Interest:
Nepomuk-town
Zelená Hora u Nepomuku -Chateau and the Manuscript of Zelená Hora