🌲 A significant and ancient nature reserve in the Czech Karst, established in 1955.
🏞️ Spanning 1547 hectares, it surrounds Karlštejn Castle and features dramatic limestone canyons, ancient caves, and diverse flora and fauna.
🚶♀️ Explore a vast network of marked hiking trails, including the Svatý Jan pod Skalou educational trail.
🦇 Discover unique karst phenomena and numerous caves like Kačák and Karlštejn.
🌸 Encounter rare and endangered plant species such as the Czech pasqueflower and martagon lily.
🦋 Observe diverse wildlife, particularly invertebrates, in thermophilic oak forests and rock steppes.
🔬 A classic area for natural sciences like mycology, entomology, and geobotany, and an important archaeological site.
⛰️ Landscape shaped by Devonian limestones, forming canyon-like valleys of the Berounka river and its tributaries.
🌿 Features world-renowned Paleozoic geological profiles and paleontological sites in natural and quarry exposures.
🌳 Diverse ecosystems range from beech forests and oak-hornbeam forests to rock steppes.
📍 Situated north of the Berounka river, between Beroun, Vráž, Mořina, Karlštejn, and Srbsko, within the Central Bohemian Region.
🇪🇺 Awarded the European Diploma for Protected Areas in 2000 by the Council of Europe, reconfirmed in 2020, for its high natural value and effective conservation management.