Bicikuv and Holanuv statek

In the village are several two-storey half-timbered houses. The most famous is Bicikuv statek (Bicik farmstead) with walled Baroque entrance with a small gate (dated to 1804). Attached to the residential ground floor section is a two-storey economic section with porch. Half-timbered rooms in the walled byre. Another excellent display of Pojizeri folk architecture is Holanuv statek (Holan farmstead).

The Boucek estate

A typical display of half-timbered folk architecture of the centreal Pojizeri. Located here is a permanent exhibition of the history of Maloskalsko, a gallery of creative art, wooden Nativities from the workshop of academic painter Josef Jira and a style restaurant.

Open: April – September Tu - Su 11.00 -17.00 
Adrress: Vranove 1, 468 22 Mala Skala
tel.: 483 392 045, 483 392 047 pi. Platkova,
e-mail: ou.mala.skala@iol.cz, www.mala-skala.cz

Dlaskuv statek (Dlask estate)

In Dolanky u Turnova is one of the most beautiful and most typical gems of half-timbered architecture in the region. The original building from 1716 was brought to the banks of the Jizera at the end of the 18th century to a site that has never been threatened by the almost regular flooding of the Jizera. In this one-storey residential building with its wonderfully decorated gable and porch, the graphic designer Josef Dlask, who also wrote a history of the farmstead, was born and lived here. Entry to the object is through a stone gate with Baroque wooden bell tower. The exhibition of the farmstead displays how our predecessors lived, including their agricultural and craft tools. At Dlaskuv statek still stands the Rakousuv sroubek (Rakous log cabin) from 1807, brought here in 1959 from Hruby Rohozec. A national ethnographic celebration is held in the area (fair, feast, festival).

Open: February, March - Sa, Su 9-16
April-June, October, December Tu-Su 9-16
July- September - Tu-Su 9-17
Adrress: Dolanky cp. 12, 511 01 Turnov
tel.: 481 322 954, 481 322 106, mail@muzeum-turnov.cz, www.muzeum-turnov.cz

Karlov

Located in the section of Lomnice nad Popelkou called Karlov are well preserved ground-floor half-timbered houses with carved gables and porches on wooden columns. This is a display of folk architecture typical for Podkrkono?i district, predominantly from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Kopicuv statek

A beautiful half-timbered building built at the beginning of the 19th century on the site of an older object. In front of the farmstead is a statue of St. George on horseback, a folk sculpture from the year 1826. Located in the middle of forests on Hruboskalska plosina, it ranks among the most famous monuments of folk architecture and creativity in Česky raj, as its owner Vojtech Kopic was a self-taught, hard-working sculptor. In the first half of the 20th century, he sculpted stone reliefs, historical personalities and events from our history on the rocks nearby and added his own verses and texts as supplements. From his work breathes love, humility and also life philosophy. In moments of rest, Kopic appears to have played on an organ, which he had on the porch. Today we can no longer hear his musical talents but the stone gallery is wide open.

Nebakovsky mlyn (Nebakovsky mill)

A Baroque two-storey building with mansard roof built from sandstone tiles. The millworks take up half of the building and the water for the mill wheel flows through a channel from Nebak rybnik.

Rovensko pod Troskami

If ever there were such a thing as "upside down", then it would be the bells in Rovensko. The "Rebellious" bells in the wooden bell tower are fastened in such a way that the heart points to the roof and tolls as if to the heavens. It is said that the reversed bells were a punishment for an uprising of rebels in 1629, when the tolling of the bells was a signal to rebellion against violent re-Catholisation. The bells toll by treading and access to the bell tower is possible with a guide. The fame of this attraction far exceeds the distance at which the sound of the bells can be heard.

Open: June-September - Tu-Sa 8-12, 13-17, Su a hol. 12-16
October - May - After phone order 
Adrress: Farni urad, Na Tyne 181, 512 63 Rovensko pod Troskami,
tel.: 481 382 226, www.rovensko.cz, inforovensko@tiscali.cz, http://obracenezvonyrovensko.unas.cz

Sobotka

A town founded in 1498 from an original market village. The Renaissance town hall with a bower that was reconstructed in the Empire style, a Gothic-Renaissance church of St. Mary Magdalena and one or two - storey houses belong to the town´s zone of sights. Sobotka is the birthplace of the poets V. Solc and F. Sramek. There is a permanent exposition in the Sramek´s house.

Sobotka - Solcuv statek

Preserved here are about twenty half-timbered houses of urban type from the end of the 18th century, creating a small square outside the centre of the town itself (the square at St. Anne). The most famous house of Sobotka is certainly the half-timbered Solcuv statek from the year 1811, which houses a gallery. The two-storey house with porch is the family and death house of the poet V. Solc.

Open: June - September 9.00-11.30 12.30-17.00
Adrress: Solcova 133, 507 43 Sobotka, tel.: 493 571 205, mic@sobotka.cz, www.sobotka.cz

Vesec u Sobotky

(memorial reservation of folk architecture)
The circular green is surrounded by a unique complex of half-timbered houses typical for Pojizeri district, which are a display of perfect joinery work with Sobotka speciality in the form of combined windows. Vesecka green has been rewarded and has already been used as a film set.

Vlastiborice

The nearby Church of St. Catherine, already noted since 1352, originally Gothic and later modified Baroque, is a stately, staggered wooden bell tower.

Vysker - bell tower

In the cemetery we find an octagonal wooden bell tower covered by shingles. It was built approximately in the year 1750 and was reconstructed in 1830.

Open: May - September Mo-Su 7.00-18.00
Adrress: OU Vysker, 512 64 Vysker
tel.: 481 329 211

Zdar u Loukova

In the village is a series of preserved folk buildings, for example the former Peldova kovarna (Pelda smithy) from 1808 with residential half-timbered house opposite at number 31. This two-storey blacksmith shop ranks among the most beautiful half-timbered buildings in the Czech Republic and approximates the Sobotka type of half-timbered buildings. Located in Zdar is the oldest determined assignation for a residential house on Mladoboleslavsko dated at 1697.

Zeleznice

(urban memorial zone)
This small spa town, with its interesting houses around the square, creates a unique Empire urban formation. The majority of the houses have later Classicist stucco decoration. We also find here half-timbered cottages from the end of the 18th century. In the spa today is a children's treatment centre.

Zelezny Brod

The town in the valley of the Jizera river originally formed by the villages Brod and Brodec which merged soon and in 1501 became a town. The town acquired the attribute "Zelezny" (iron) due to iron mining. Glass industry has flourished since the 19 th century and Glass Technology School was founded in 1920. Glass production has been the major field of industry for Zelezny Brod and its surroundings. Originally Gothic wooden church of St. James the Graeter was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1762. In the graveyard there is a charnel -house along with an octagonal bell-tower from the second half of the 18 th century. Only a group of timbered houses at Travnice has been preserved from the original wooden built up area that existed there in the early 20 th century (reservation). Models of wooden folk buildings are located in the Etnographic Museum of the upper Jizera region. Birthplace of painter V. Rada and composer V. Viper.

Open: October – April Sa, Su 9.00–12.00 13.00–16.00
May, June, September Tu–Su 9.00–12.00 13.00–16.00
July, August Tu-Su 9.00-12.00 13.00-17.00
Adrress: Muzeum Zelezny Brod, nam. 3. kvetna 1, 468 22 Zelezny Brod
tel.: 483 389 081, e-mail: muzeum@zelbrod.cz, www.zelbrod.cz
Beliste – Muzeum, Beliste 57, 468 22 Zelezný Brod, tel.: 483 391 149