Olomouc and houses in Wallachia

Today we drove to the former capital of Moravia and took a city tour of Olomouc, which is 1000 years old.

After a short detour through a park, we went to the Oberring. The square is the center of the old town.

Here you can also find the impressive town hall and the largest plague column in the Czech Republic.

The town hall is also home to the grand astronomical clock from 1422, which is the second oldest in the Czech Republic after the one in Prague.

At noon, the clock chimes and the figures come to life. Along with some visitors, but much more relaxed than in Prague, we watched it later.

Olomouc used to be the seat of the bishop, as evidenced by the St. Wenceslas Cathedral.

Our way there led us through the old town, past various splendid houses and city palaces.

We walked through the university quarter back to the Niederring, a square near the Oberring.

There we had a delicious lunch in the sun at a temperature of 32°C.

As we were leaving, we noticed that our restaurant was right next to the Haunschild Palace, which was built in the 16th century. Mozart had already stayed here in 1767.

Our journey continued to Wallachia, the easternmost point of our trip.

Here we visited the Wallachian Open-Air Museum in Roznov pod Radhostem.

First, we went to the 'Wallachian Village'.

In this part of the museum, houses from villages in Wallachia from past centuries have been reconstructed or rebuilt.

In the kiosk of the village, we also tried the typical Wallachian 'frgal', a flat cake: On a large yeast dough, there is a juicy topping, e.g. made of curd, pears, or poppy seeds.

Directly opposite, on the other side of the street, we continued to the next part of the open-air museum: the wooden town.

Here, buildings from a small Wallachian town from the second half of the 19th century have been rebuilt.

In addition to the church, the old town hall of the city was also transferred here to save it from demolition and preserve it for future generations.

In this part of the open-air museum, there were numerous stalls and restaurants, which were slowly packing up since we arrived just an hour before the museum closed.

Nevertheless, we still tried a second variation of 'frgal' before all the cakes were packed up.

Well-fed, we then went back to the campsite, which was within walking distance of the museum. We just made it there in time before it started to rain and thunder.