Svatý Antonínek (from Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem)
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Svatý Antonínek (from Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem) is a 2.0 km cycling climb averaging 6.6% (+129 m), rising from 213 m to 342 m in Czechia.
A pilgrims' climb through the Blatnice vineyards to the Baroque chapel of St Anthony, a working pilgrimage site since 1670 on the westernmost spur of the White Carpathians. The lane passes the historic cellar rows and finishes under a linden avenue.
2.0 km · +129 m · 6.6% avg · ~13.5% max · 213 → 342 m
Stats computed from OpenStreetMap and satellite elevation data — approximate.
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Gradient by colour: ● <3% ● 3–6% ● 6–9% ● 9%+
Where it bites
Steepest 250 m: 15.2% (km 0.9–1.1).
Road: paved throughout
| section | to | avg |
|---|---|---|
| 0–250 m | 220 m | 2.9% |
| 250–500 m | 230 m | 7.1% |
| 500–750 m | 256 m | 7.4% |
| 750–1000 m | 275 m | 7.4% |
| 1000–1250 m | 305 m | 12.7% |
| 1250–1500 m | 311 m | 2.7% |
| 1500–1750 m | 338 m | 8.7% |
What it’s like to ride
Just under two kilometres at around 6% takes you out of Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem and up onto Blatnická hora, the westernmost outcrop of the White Carpathians at about 350 m. The lane leaves the village past the historic cellar rows of Stará hora and Kamenice, climbs through vineyards that have covered these slopes for centuries, and runs its last stretch under a linden avenue. At the top stands the Baroque pilgrimage chapel of St Anthony of Padua, an octagonal rotunda built between 1668 and 1670 and still a working pilgrimage site, with the ground falling away back over the village; it opens 10:00 to 17:00 in summer and 11:00 to 15:00 in winter. There is water on the pilgrimage grounds: a spring house a couple of hundred metres south of the chapel, plus a well drilled in 2019 after the older springs began drying up. Carry on about 300 m toward Ostrožská Lhota and you pass a reconstructed army observation bunker.
History
The climb exists to serve the pilgrimage chapel of St Anthony of Padua on Blatnická hora, the westernmost spur of the White Carpathians: its foundation stone was laid in 1668, the first pilgrims came in 1670 once the original rotunda was finished, and after the chapel was suppressed under the Josephine reforms following 1783 the village of Blatnice bought it back and undertook to repair and maintain it in 1819. The surfaced pilgrimage way that climbs to it is lined with small wayside chapels and is walked and ridden year round, with no racing history attached to it.
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Common questions
- How long and steep is Svatý Antonínek (from Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem)?
- Svatý Antonínek (from Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem) is a 2.0 km cycling climb averaging 6.6% (+129 m), rising from 213 m to 342 m in Czechia.
- Where is Svatý Antonínek (from Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem) steepest?
- The steepest 250 m averages 15.2%, between km 0.9 and km 1.1 of the climb.
- What is the road surface like on Svatý Antonínek (from Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem)?
- Svatý Antonínek (from Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem) is paved throughout.