Pilsen’s Summer Season Is Like a Children’s Dream. You Won’t Know Where to Go First
Do you have a little scientist, magician or enthusiastic athlete at home? Take them to Pilsen which starts the season with a lot of news. The zoological garden introduces new baby animals, new interactive exhibitions await at the Techmania Science Center and children can meet dragons and witches at the Museum of Ghosts and Fairy Tales. For sports, head over to Škodaland – a sports area by the dam, which is ideal for a summer day with the kids. Pilsen won’t let you stay home this year.
News at the Pilsen Zoo and DinoPark
The Pilsen Zoo has always something new for its visitors. This year, you can meet several new baby animals as you stroll in a pleasant surroundings of the garden. A mare of the rare maneless zebra was born at the end of March. Baby monkeys of northern white-cheeked gibbon or saddle-back tamarin will enchant you with their cuteness. And the one-year-old male of chimpanzee Dumay is becoming independent. You will meet his chimpanzee group at the Tropical Pavilion. The neighbouring DinoPark has also announced a new addition. So take a longer walk and show the kids another prehistorical giant that has moved to Pilsen. It is the herbivorous Therizinosaurus – a „scythe lizard“, whose claws could measure more than one metre. Another novelty is the historically first robotic walking lizard – a cute baby stegosaurus.
For Little Scientists and Adventurers
Little scientists and adventurers will be captivated by the interactive Techmania Science Center in Pilsen. You and your children can take a look at permanent exhibitions dedicated to individual sciencetific disciplines and try how the world around us works in a fun and understandable way. Those who are more interested in history can step into the depths of the city and visit the historical underground. Under the centre of Pilsen, passageways, cellars and water wells stretch to almost 20 kilometres. The underground labyrinth is the third largest in Czechia with its extent and dates back to the end of 13th century. A visit of 800-metre-long tour route is a great choice, for example, for hot summer days.
Are your children brave? Then they can go to the Museum of Ghosts and Fairy Tales. Together, you will take a look into the world of fairy tales and magic, run into the mythical Lord Radouš, water goblins, witches, fire dogs or dragons. You can play at the Puppet Museum or adventure path of Spejbl and Hurvínek around the Bolevec Ponds too. These are a popular place for swimming and summer fun.
Sports Paradise by the Dam
For fun in the fresh air, you can also go to the Škodaland by the České údolí reservoir dam. You will find here a 400-metre-long in-line track (even Czech speed skater Martina Sáblíková tested it herself), a traffic playground with street signs and signals or a large playing field for football, foot tennis, basketball and also beach volleyball. In summer, don’t forget a swimsuit – the local swimming pond with a chlorine-free treatment is suitable even for anyone with allergies and for the smallest children, for whom there is paddling with water slide. Other places in Pilsen also offer sports activities – Slovany swimming pool, Škoda sport park, Area D, Hopsina and a plenty of children’s playgrounds. However, we have one special invitation for you – the almost ten-day Sportmania festival (16th – 24th August) where you and children can try dozens of different sports for free.
In the surroundings of Pilsen, you will find a lot of attraction worth visiting as well. You can visit animals right in their pens at the Farmapark U Toma or in Dobřany, and you can also even try to feed some of them. You can enjoy a beautiful view of Pilsen from the Radyně Castle, and lovers aircraft and military technology will be happy to make a trip to the Air Park Zruč with more than 80 exhibits, including planes, helicopters or tanks.
