Sights and tourist destinations

  The majority of visitors want to see Hradec Castle. It was the ducal house Lichnowsky which wrote the most significant chapter in its history. The castle houses valuable collections of antique furniture, glass and china, a library, art gallery and many more. 

    Hradec, though, does not mean only the castle. Many other places are worth seeing, too – among them the Church of St. Peter and Paul from the 16th century, route of the Cross called the Silesian Calvary and unique relics of fortifications called Šance from the Silesian Wars, which gave the place its name. It also shares the name with the latest tourist attraction, the Šance lookout tower, situated 522 m above the sea level. From its top there is a marvelous view of Opavian region and both the Beskydy and Jeseníky mts. You should not miss a 19th century wonder of technology, a 3.5 km long Weisshuhn`s Paper Mill Canal leading through three tunnels built in slopes and two aqueducts.

It is situated to the west of Filipovice, in the deep valley of the Melč brook. A small chapel was probably built there as early as in the 18th century to thank for a miraculous recovery of a small girl. At the end of the 19th century a wooden chapel consecrated to St. Mary was built. It was in ruins after WWII, but in 1996 it was renewed.  A part of it is a roofed wooden altar with a kneeling desk and a small tower.

A wooden cross and a Lourdes cave built of stone can also be seen in the site. Pilgrimages have been regularly held again at Maria Talhof since the mid-1990s.

The place is easy to reach if you follow yellow tourist sign from Melč, from Filipovice you have to descend a sinking path.