The Svitava Valley between Blansk and Brno

From a geological point of view, the Svitava River is a very young river. At the end of the Tertiary, the present-day Svitava valley from Doubravice to the south did not yet exist. Paleotok Svitava came from Malá Haná and continued to the southwest through Černá hora, Milonice, Lažany and Kuři towards Brno. Thanks to the movements in the earth's crust that occurred throughout the Bohemian Massif, a sharply incised valley gradually formed only later...