Olomouc Region: 10 places worth a day trip

The brewery of the Jeseníky mountains in Hanušovice, founded in 1874 and brewing with soft mountain water.

Přerov's brewery, founded in 1872 and named after the European bison on its label.

A microbrewery on the edge of Olomouc brewing unfiltered beers, with a summer garden near the Morava river.

A 35-metre Baroque column completed in 1754, the largest Baroque sculptural group in Central Europe. UNESCO since 2000.

A fairy-tale castle rebuilt around 1900 for the Teutonic Order and a favourite filming location.

Warm sulphur springs below a Renaissance chateau, in a village also known for its 16th-century hand paper mill and for the witch trials held here.

Vincenz Priessnitz opened the world's first hydrotherapy institute here in 1822; cold-water cures are still given on the wooded slopes above Jeseník.

Carbonated mineral springs in the Bečva valley, next to the Zbrašov aragonite caves, the warmest in the country.

The largest peat bog in Moravia and Silesia, with a boardwalk to the Great Moss Lake.

Spruce plantations around the peat bogs are saffron milk cap country, best in September and October.