The small Czech town of Milovice had a difficult fate - this city has always been someone's military base. Here a lot of people in uniforms visited: Austro-Hungarian army, Czechoslovak, German, again Czechoslovak, and after Soviet. It started still with Austria-Hungary, and ended with the headquarters of the Soviet Central Troops Group.
How to get there?
You can get from Prague to Milovice in about forty minutes, along the E65 road, to the signpost of the city. In addition, a direct train runs from the capital of the Czech Republic to Milovice.
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The paragraph of history
Milovice is located only 40 kilometers from the Czech capital . The first mention of the city dates back to the 14th century, and tells us that there was a gentry courtyard of some Golomka family here. . Since then it can not be said that the city is constantly found on the pages of medieval chronicles or was the arena of geopolitical battles . @ However, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian rule, in 1904 a military training camp was being built on the territory of the evicted village of Mlada. polygon . With the beginning of the First World War, the training camp changes its specialization and becomes a prison camp for prisoners of war .
In 1919, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the landfill began to use the young army of independent Czechoslovakia . And in 1939, Milovitsa was already in power Germans who, with their inherent thoroughness, are made to "equip space" by expanding the range and building a tankdrome here . After the Second World War, the test site again becomes a place for the exercises of the Czechoslovak Army, though for a short while . Exactly until the infamous 1968, to GDSs here come the next Soviet "liberators" and "brothers" in the socialist camp, and remained here right up to 1991, until the fall of communism .
Milovice in many ways and is known for the fact that he was a Soviet military town and the main base. In 1995, the already abandoned test site and the military town officially ceased to be such. Today, Milovice is a small quiet Czech settlement, although with preserved "monuments" of its turbulent military past.
Entertainment, excursions and attractions Milovice
No wonder that in a city with such a rich military past the main entertainment is of a military nature. There are a lot of abandoned bunkers, polygons, military hangars, barracks in Milovitsa. One of the main attractions is the famous Milovitsky tankcade. There were tanks and bateirs left after the departure of the Soviet troops, on which you can ride today! In addition, there is a shooting range, games are played in the field of paintball and airsoft and even helicopter flights.
For those who like a more relaxing holiday (and this, as a rule, a beautiful half of humanity, accompanying their non-existent "big boys"), one must certainly pay attention to the ascetic church of St. Catherine. Especially it will be of interest to our compatriots, because the painting was done by Russian prisoners of war in the Orthodox style. Such an unusual combination of Orthodox painting and Catholic architecture is probably not found throughout Europe.
Travelers with children will probably be interested in the Mirakulum Science and Entertainment Park.