Tourist attraction
Kleť Observatory
Mountaintop observatory ranked among the world's top asteroid-hunting sites, reached by a summit trail steeped in local legend.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Kleť Observatory near Český Krumlov opens with a logbook by a mountain hut and the local Kleťáci club, who treat the summit climb as devotion worth an Everest-scale count. It moves from centuries of local legend about the granite peak as a place of old cults to the observatory built on its southern slope in 1957, and comet hunter Antonín Mrkos, who ran it from 1965 with a camera he built himself. Sign the logbook by the hut door if you make the climb yourself.
This audio guide was created using AI.