Hradišťany (753 m a.s.l.) is the second highest peak in the Bohemian Central Highlands — a quietly remarkable summit where an ancient hillfort meets a wildflower-rich mountain meadow. It is the kind of place that rewards the curious hiker with both natural beauty and a genuine sense of history underfoot.
The mountain is built from nephelinite and trachyte, and its broad, gently sloping summit plateau is fringed by steep slopes with frost scarps, scree, and boulder streams. Mixed forests of spruce, beech and maple cover the hillsides right up to the open top. The summit nature reserve, Hradišťanská louka, protects a rare subalpine meadow community — in season you can spot globe flower, lily martagon, narrow-leaved lungwort and cinquefoil among others. The atmosphere is peaceful and a little wild, especially in early morning when mist lingers in the valleys far below.
How to reach the summitLook carefully around the plateau and you will spot the double earthen ramparts of a Bronze Age and Iron Age hillfort from the Knovíz culture (8th–6th century BC) — in places still standing up to two metres high, making this one of the most intriguing prehistoric sites in the entire region.