Račí údolí nature reserve through the Devil's pulpit and the Rychleby castle ruins

The deeply incised, seven-kilometer-long Račí údolí, the mouth of which is located approximately two kilometers southwest of Javorník, used to be a popular destination for trips in the past. On the rocky promontory of the Přilba hill, above the left bank of the Račí stream, there is an extensive ruin of the Gothic castle Rychleby (Reichenštejn), founded in the 13th-15th centuries to guard the salt trail from Nisa through Kladsk to Hradec Králové. To…