Hospital Kuks — Attraction in okres Trutnov

The Baroque Kuks Castle is located on the right bank of the Labe River and was built at the beginning of the 18th century according to the project of the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi. The castle consisted of two parts - the hospital with the Church of the Holy Trinity and the second part with the second oldest pharmacy in Bohemia and Moravia. Both parts are accessible during the tour and are very beautiful, the area has recently been costly reconstructed. I highly recommend the tour, which is also available in English. The tour lasts one hour and includes a visit to the lapidarium, where the original statues of the virtues and vices by Matthias Braun are kept. Today, the premises also house the Czech Pharmaceutical Museum, a department of Charles University, and the Czech Wine Bank is located in the cellars. The place - the village of Kuks - is extremely picturesque. The view from the village to the castle and from the castle to the village - the former spa - is...

The location is beautiful! But, you can only enter by guided tour. That takes at least 1 hour. Normally that would not be a problem, but the whole tour is in Czech only! And they did not tell that up front. Our guide talked in a loud, monotone voice. During her talking we had to read all the information from a booklet in Dutch. But the order of the tour was different than the order of the infomation in the booklet. CORONA : The tour was absolutely NOT Corona proof!! Of 50 people only 5 wore a mask, nobody minded keeping any distance and we had to be in a small, confined (doors are locked behind the group) room twice. In retrospect, if I had known these things up front, I would not have spent 630 Czech crowns (2 adults, 1 teenager). This does not mean that you should not go, the walk up to the hospital and visiting all the outside gardens and statues certainly are worth your while! And free! The views are...

As a non-Czech speaker you get a laminated booklet with information in your own language. You use it while you follow the Czech spoken tour. For me that was just fine. It's just that the tour itself was just not as interesting or as long (in terms of length of walk) as I'd expected it to be. Well, not for the money you pay for it anyway. Add the parking fee to it and it's just too expensive. Happy to have seen it, mind you, and the cashier and guide were very friendly, but I might not to do it again. I feel that for the money the visit to the crypt should be included. The hospital building is impressive from the outside and certainly...