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Observation towers and sight-seeing locations

• Hukvaldy - castle ruins
  A large fortified castle from the half of the 13th century withstood many attacks and sieges. It was abandoned in the 18th century and afterwards it burned down. Today the romantic ruin attracts many cultural events. In the game park under the castle you can see fallow deer and moufflons. The composer Leoš Janáček was born here.
  Telephone: 558699323, 731660808
  Address: Hukvaldy 37, Hukvaldy
  
• St. John the Baptist Church
  Church with a Gothic core. It suffered fires serval times. Repairs began on the church tower in 1993. There are 3 steel bells in the tower, the largest one being Maria, whihc was originally in the tower of the Marian church. There are crypts below the church.
  Telephone: 603970829, 604163568
  Address: Frýdek-Místek
  
• Starý Jičín - castle ruins
  The old castle from the beginning of the 13th century was later rebuilt into a Renaissance residence. When the owners built a new castle nearby the old place was abandoned and in the 19th century it became a ruin. The castle is currently being reconstructed.
  Telephone: 602320577
  Address: Starý Jičín
  
• Štramberská Trúba - castle
  In the 13th century, the castle was the property of the esoteric order of the Knights Templar. After the Order was terminated, the castle was held by Czech King Jan Lucembursky. Only parts of the walls and mainly the circular Trúba tower are all that have been preserved of the Gothic castle. The view from the tower is enhanced by the coloured glass...
  Telephone: 731134125
  Address: Kopec 77, Štramberk
  
• Prašivá - chalet and lookout tower
  The classic wooden tourist lodge, which roof is crowned with a tiny lookout tower with sheltered gallery is located on Malá Prašivá (706 m) from 1921, when it was finished by the organization Pobeskydská jednota slezská from Frýdek with assistance of local people. Prašivá is a mountain "in the first line" of Beskid massif, providing an excellent view...
  Telephone: 604618400
  Address: Vyšní Lhoty 200
  
• Bílá hora - lookout tower
  In 2001, an unusual telecommunication tower was built on Bílá hora (White Mountain) between Štramberk and Kopřivnice. Its designer let himself to be inspired by the structure of DNA - in a similar way the staircase spirals a concrete column up to the gallery in the height of 26 meters (the tower is 43 meters high), which provides a magnificent vista...
  Telephone: 595179111
  Address: Kopřivnice
  
• Čarták (Súkenická) - iron lookout tower
  Despite the fact that the lookout tower on Čarták was built in 1998 as a simple telecommunication station, it is beyond common facilities of such kind. For its structure not to mar the woods of the Beskids, nearly the entire 30 meters high tower is paneled with wood and extends into a sheltered observation gallery. As it stands in the borderland of...
  Address: Horní Bečva
  
• Čubův kopec - timber lookout tower
  A brand new wooden lookout tower, 16 m high, was built in the borderlands between Czech and Slovak countries over Francova Lhota in 1991, providing a view of ridges of Javorníky and White Carpathian Mountains, or nearby Vizovické vrchy, and in excellent weather even Súľovské skály and Malá Fatra.
  Telephone: 571458237
  Address: Francova Lhota
  
• Frenštát pod Radhoštěm - town hall
  A two-storey Renaissance terrace building with a pillared arcade, and a tower decorated with the sandstone coat-of-arms of the city - St. Martin. The city hall interiors are ornate with impressive stucco work.
  Telephone: 556836916
  Address: nám. Míru 1, Frenštát pod Radhoštěm
  
• Jurkovič observation tower
  The observation tower was built according to the original architectural designs of Dušan Jurkovič, who designed it in 1896. The observation tower is 32 m tall. The tallest viewing platform is located at a height of 19 m.
  Telephone: 571652444
  Address: Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
  
• Kabátice - iron lookout tower
  The twenty-two metre high observation tower, steel structure completed by a wood roof and walkway, which provides a view of the village Chlebovice and the city Frýdek-Místek with the blue Olešna dam. You can see the city Havířov further on in the background. On the left, the less appealing side of the industrial zone Paskova and Ostrava open up. In...
  Address: Frýdek-Místek, Chlebovice
  
• Lysá Mountain - peak
  The highest peak of the Moravia-Silesia Beskydy Mountains (1323 m), it is separated by the valley of the Ostravice, Řečice and Mohelnice River. A weather station and telecommunication is located here. Under fair weather conditions, you can get a beautiful view of the Beskydy Mountains, the Mala Fatra and sometimes even as far as the Western Tatra Mountains...
  Address:
  
• Okrouhlá - iron lookout tower
  The observation platform for visitors is located at a height of 30 metres above the ground. You can see as close as Frýdek-Místek and the Olešná dam, to as far as the agglomeration Ostrava and even more distant Havířov, the industrial centres of the region such as the mining towers of the nearby Staříč and Chlebovice shafts or the Nova Hut complex...
  Telephone: 558660260, 605447149
  Address: Staříč
  
• Monument to the victims of World War II
  Monument on the peak of Helštýn according to the design of Josef Místecky and Jaroslav Hlaváč.
  Address: Valašské Meziříčí
  
• Cyrilka lookout tower
  View into the valley of the city Frenštát pod Radhoštěm Pálkovicka hůrka, Štramberska Trúba and Beskydý peak from Lysa Mountain.
  Address: Frenštát pod Radhoštěm
  
• Na Ztracenci observation tower
  Wooden observation tower on the peak of the Ztracenec (1055 m above sea level) in the Javornik Mountains. There are information tables and rest areas here. If the weather is favourable, you can see Lysa Mountain, Radhošť, or even the peaks of the Mala Fatra.
  Address: Velké Karlovice
  
• Soběšovice - lookout tower
  The iron observation tower is covered with wood with a spiral staircase inside. The roofed walkway is located at a height of 13 m.
  Telephone: 558404550
  Address: Soběšovice
  
• Vartovna - iron lookout tower
  The observation tower lies at a height of 651 m above sea level. The building structure is 37 m tall and offers sa beautiful view of Vsetínské, Vizovické, Hostýnské peaks and Beskydy. If the weather is favourable, you can see all the way to the Tatra Mountains.
  Telephone: 571446090
  Address: Seninka
  
• Devil's Rocks - natural heritage area
  A massive wall of sandstone blocks - creation of which was ascribed to devil - rises from a slope over the road near the village Lidečko. It is 150 meters long and 20 meters high and is a favourite place of climbers.
  Address: Lidečko
  
• Skalka - peak
  Address:
  
• Rašek's Stone
  Rock viewing point.
  Address: Kopřivnice
  
• Maruška Observation Tower
  Address:
  
• Miloň's Observation Tower
  The wooden tower on a stone plinth is 24 m tall. The viewing platform is found at 20 m. The observation tower offers a beautiful view of the ridge of the Vsacký Beskydy, Javorníky Mountains.
  Address: Velké Karlovice
  
• Observation tower on Bezruč viewing point
  The wooden observation tower is 13 m tall. It is located on the site of the former Bezruč viewing point. The observation tower offers a beautiful view of Kopřívnice.
  Address: Kopřivnice
  
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  Telephone: 605960891
  Address: Trojanovice
  
• Svinec
  Address: Starý Jičín
  
• Velký Javorník - lookout tower
  Wooden, multi-level observation tower offering an attractive view of the peaks of the Beskyd Mountains.
  Address:
  
• U Holáň Observation Tower
  
  Telephone: 792220022
  Address: č.p. 190, Pržno
  
• Puntík - peak
  Address: Nový Jičín
  
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