📜 A wooden lookout tower near Velké Pavlovice, uniquely stylized to resemble a grapevine bush.
🔍 Standing 18.6 meters high with a 15-meter viewing platform (75 steps), it offers panoramic views of the South Moravian wine region, often called the "city of wine and apricots".
🍇 Discover a lookout tower designed to mimic a grapevine, blending with local winemaking tradition
👀 Enjoy sweeping vistas of Pálava, the Lednice-Valtice area, and numerous wine villages
🔭 Spot distant sights like Austrian windmills, and on clear days, Vienna and the Alps
🗺️ Utilize panoramic maps at the top for easy orientation of visible landmarks
🏞️ See specific landmarks like Mušovská jezera, Dívčí hrady, and nearby villages like Bořetice and Němčičky, with distant views of other lookouts like Kraví Hora and Starovičky
🆓 Access is free and the tower is open non-stop, year-round
💰 Entry to the Slunečná Lookout Tower is free.
🗺️ Located approximately 1 km east of Velké Pavlovice, on the Nadzahrady wine trail
🚴♀️ Accessible by following Krajem André and Modré Hory cycling paths, or the "Zastavení v kraji vína a meruněk" educational trail
🚶♂️ Reachable by foot via yellow or green tourist signs from the ČD train stop
🚗 By car, turn left from road no. 421 (from Velké Pavlovice towards Bořetice) onto a paved asphalt road
🚗 Available directly under the lookout tower via a paved asphalt road
🍷 A kiosk, souvenir shop, and wine cellar, stylized as South Moravian wine cellars, are at the base
🚻 Restrooms are available in one of the cellar-styled buildings
🧺 Enjoy a covered, shaded seating area with a bench swing for relaxation
☀️ July & August: Daily 10:00 - 19:00
🍂 Spring/Autumn (Apr-Jun, Sep-Oct): Weekends & public holidays 10:00 - 18:00 (weather permitting)
❄️ November - March: CLOSED
🏗️ Built in 2009 with larch wood, reconstructed in 2019 with spruce wood and steel
📏 Total height: 18.6m; viewing platform at 15m (240m above sea level) accessible by 75 steps
📐 Designed by Ing. Martin Novák & Ing. Antonín Olšina, with the entire tourist area planned by Josef Veverka
✨ Features a slight tilt towards Velké Pavlovice, adding to its unique design
🤝 Built as part of the "Look Around and Discover" project with Senica, Slovakia, funded 90% by a cross-border cooperation program
📅 Opened May 8, 2009, after construction began March 9, 2009, with initial ideas dating back to 2004
⛪ Nearby Chapel of St. Urban (patron of winemakers) consecrated in 2008, predating the tower's construction
🛠️ Constructed by Teplotechna a.s. Ostrava, with wood sourced from Vysočina and limestone from Senice for its foundations
🏛️ Operated by the City of Velké Pavlovice