Trip to the lookout tower on Velký Blaník

We were going to the observation tower already in April, but we didn't make it in time. It would be closed by now. That's why we planned it better on our next trip to Moravia. Velký Blaník is a 638 m high hill, approx. 8 km south of Vlašimi. It is shrouded in rumors about the Blanica knights, whose origin is said to be perhaps even in the time of the Celts. The peak was already inhabited in the 5th century BC, when during the Hallstatt period there was…