Beskids - Moravian Wallachia - Caves and underground areas

Caves and underground areas

• Staříč - training adit
  Underground "artificial mine" - a demonstration of a gallery, where normal mining workplaces in technological relation just like in a real mine are found along a 150 m long mine corridor.
  Telephone: 558493381
  Address: Staříč
  
• (Botanická zahrada a arboretum Štramberk)
  The botanical gardens and arboretum are situated on the southern hillside of an old limestone quarry the Dolni Kamenarka. The main part of the exhibition is formed by calcicole and thermophilic plant species originating in the Stramberk region. There is a unique limestone wetland at the bottom. Visitors will surely also be fascinated by the old quarry...
  Telephone: 732170019
  Address: Štramberk
  
• Šipka Caves - national natural heritage area
  A small cave of enormous significance, as far as archaeological findings are concerned. In 1880s, K. Mašek discovered a jowl fraction of a Neanderthal child (40,000 years old), Paleolithic stone tools, and bones of numerous animals, mainly cave bears.
  Address: Štramberk