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Château in Hradec nad Moravicí
The town of Hradec nad Moravicí makes an entrance gate to a picturesque valley of the Moravice river, whose most important dominant feature is a complex of White and Red chateau together with the neighbouring park. Very famous visitors stayed in the chateau, such as L. van Beethoven, W. A. Mozart, F. Liszt, N. Paganini, and J. Mánes. A fairy tale atmosphere is created by the English park with its area of about 63 ha.
It is the second largest park in Moravia and Silesia. Unlike the others, it is not closed but it opens freely into the countryside. The highest place, from where you can see the Jeseníky Mountains, used to have a name Vilem’s Upland until 1947. It was renamed Bezruč’s Lookout for his 80th birthday.
The museum was founded on 1st of May in 1814 and it became the oldest museum in the Czech Republic. This neorenaissance building was given a final flourish with a cupola and it was built in 1893 – 1895. In the museum there are permanent exhibitions, for instance The development of the nature in Silesia and in the north of Moravia, Silesia in folk art or European art from 14th to 18th centuries. In 1958 Arboretum in Nový Dvůr near Opava was founded and The Memorial of Petr Bezruč was incorporated into the museum.
It is a kind of a specialized botanical garden concentrating on bushes and trees and it is about 12 km far from Opava, on the west.
The original chateau park became a basis for today’s collection. The area of the botanical garden covers 23 hectares today and over 7,000 kinds, varieties, cultivated varieties and species of wood from all around the world are planted here.
The basis of today’s collection came into existence in 1906 – 1928 in the days of Quido Riedel, who married into Novodvorský manor house. Among the most interesting expositions belong atlas cedar, Japanese white pine and Japanese thuja.