Moravian wine & bike trails

7 days / 6 nights – 5 biking days

Guided group tour or Self-guided individual tour

Length 248 km / 154 miles

Grade of difficulty: Moderate

If you are a wine lover, admirer of beautiful landscape and ancient history, than this trail is the right one for you! On this journey, we will get to the most famous wine regions of Austria and of the Czech Republic, where the wine making tradition runs for almost two thousand years. We will peak into the lives of local wine producers in picturesque villages, which always have two centers - the residential and the wine making one. We will have a chance to become familiar with the process of wine making from planting of the grapevine all the way to the final product. In addition, every evening you will have a chance to taste and to compare samples of exceptional wines of both regions along with specialties of local cuisines! This tour runs through a scenic, slightly hilly countryside full of vineyards and beautiful nature! History lovers will definitely be excited about visiting two unique historical sights under the auspices of the UNESCO - the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape and the Schönbrunn Castle in Austria. Among the highlights of this entire tour will definitely be a visit of centers of European cultural centers, royal residential towns packed with historical sights - cities of Prague and Vienna!

Tour Calendar

Day 1 - Arrival to Prague
Pick up at the airport and transfer to the hotel. Sightseeing tour of the city, in the evening a briefing including information about organization of the tour, the travel plan, adjustment of bikes, getting familiar with safety during transport. We strongly recommend extending your stay in the Czech Republic in order to be able to visit Prague and all its beauties. We can arrange accommodation and tour guiding services for you (for more see town tours).

Day 2 - Transport to Moravia - Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Distance: 30 km / 19 miles
In the morning, we will be transferred to South Moravia by car (3,5 hours). We will spend all day exploring the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape - a castle complex which used to belong to the family of Lichtenstein. Under the care of this single family, the swampy area was transformed into a well thought out combination of castles and parks, sometimes also called "The Garden of Europe" or "The Garden Paradise". We will have a chance to visit this place, which combines both indigenous and exotic natural elements in order to create an outstanding work of human creativity. Since the complex is very large, bike is the recommended mode of transportation allowing you to experience this exceptional cultural site along with a good workout. Be it a botanical garden, wine tasting of the awarded best wines of Czech republic in Chateau wine cellar in Valtice or visit of one of many salems makes this day highlight of the whole tour!

Day 3 - Podluzi wine region loop
Distance: 55 km / 35 miles
Today's journey will lead us through wide open plains of the winemaking region of Podluzi with picturesque villages, wine cellars and friendly people along the newly created Czech-Slovak boarders. On the way, we will visit largest wine cellar village in Velke Bilovice, solemnly wine cellar village Nechory, ancient Slavic settlement, as well as the beautiful Pohansko Castle, which was built in the Empire style, and the town of Breclav. We will conclude this day by arriving back to the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.

Day 4 - Nove Mlyny Water Dam - Pavlov - Mikulov
Distance: 50 km / 31 miles
This day will start off by a bike ride through the peaceful region of the Dyje River towards the Nove Mlyny Water Dam. A small town of Pavlov will be our first stop. This town is "guarded" by Devin - a castle ruin which is located above the town. While some will be enjoying a break in a local restaurant, others can climb up to the ruins to enjoy an amazing view. After that, we will continue through the village of Dolni Vestonice, which is very well known due to a rare archeological find of a small woman statue 23 000 years old! To get to our final destination of the day - the town of Mikulov - we will ride through the vineyard region and around the Palava Hills. Mikulov will welcome us with its Baroque castle with a wine museum, an old synagogue, Jewish cemetery and a local curiosity - a giant wine cask.

Day 5 - Mikulov - Laa an der Thaya
Distance: 59 km / 37 miles
This day will be our first one in Austria. We will get on the wine bike path, which bears the name after the most famous wine cultivar - it is called the Veltlinska Bike Path. This path will take us through a slightly hilly terrain and, from the distance, we will be called by the Falkenstein castle ruins, which is the dominant of the entire region. Adjunct vineyards region is one the most beautiful in this area. From the castle ruins, we will continue through the Herrnbaumgarten Village, which is famous for its poetic museum of non-senses, all the way to wine museum in Poysdorf, where you will have a chance to learn everything you did not know about wine so far! After passing the Staatz castle ruins, we will be already in our final destination for the day - a spa town of Laa an der Thaya. Here we will be able to admire two town halls, remains of a castle and, most importantly, to taste the local great wines!

Day 6 - Laa an der Thaya - Znojmo
Distance: 66 km / 38 miles
On this last bike day, we will follow the main bike route of the entire region to the West, all the way to the village of Hadres, where we will visit the most beautiful wine street of the entire region. It is 1,6 km long and there are more than 400 cellars along it. Retz, an old-time wine town, is only a skip away from Hardes. In Retz, we will have a chance to admire not only an interesting main square, but primarily 20 km-long labyrinth of wine cellars, which holds five million liters of this godly drink! Just north of Retz, we will pass an old windmill and then we will return back to the Czech Republic. A beautifully painted wine cellar, well-preserved fortification from World War II and many other small sights will be on our "to visit list" in the center of this wine region - the town of Znojmo. Just before entering Znojmo, we can turn to the Podyji National Park and our reward will be magnificent - an unforgettable view of the Sobes vineyard, which supposedly is located in the highest altitude of all vineyards in Europe!

Day 7 - Vienna (Austria)
In the morning, transport by train for the city of waltz, opera and famous Vienna coffee. The capital city of Austria will be our final destination of our journey. We strongly recommend to extend your stay in Vienna by at least one day, because the UNESCO protected city center, the Schönbrunn Castle and many other sights are too beautiful and unique to be missed. We can arrange accommodation and tour guiding services for you, as well as possible transport back to Prague. Should you decide you prefer rather transportation from Znojmo back to Prague, we can arrange it with our car and bikes for free.