Zavíravá u Vranova (Adamov → Vranov u Brna)
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Zavíravá u Vranova (Adamov → Vranov u Brna) is a 7.1 km cycling climb averaging 4.0% (+280 m), rising from 248 m to 528 m in Czechia.
The forest road from Adamov up to Vranov u Brna, one of Moravia's main Marian pilgrimage villages. For Brno riders it is the way out of the Svitava valley and into the Moravian Karst.
7.1 km · +280 m · 4.0% avg · ~7.3% max · 248 → 528 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 500 m: 7.3% (km 0.3–0.7).
Road: paved throughout
| km | to | avg |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 310 m | 6.5% |
| 2 | 342 m | 3.1% |
| 3 | 379 m | 3.9% |
| 4 | 423 m | 4.8% |
| 5 | 456 m | 3.0% |
| 6 | 496 m | 3.8% |
| 7 | 527 m | 3.1% |
What it’s like to ride
The road climbs out of the Svitava valley at Adamov, which sits in deep forest where the Křtinský potok meets the river, and works up through the Vranov woods for about 7 km at roughly 4% to Vranov u Brna at 465 m. The high ground it is named for, Zavíravá at 525 m, is the highest point of those forests, its summit trig stone cut with the year 1934. Vranov is one of the main Marian pilgrimage places in Moravia, so the top is a village rather than a bare summit: the early Baroque church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, the Pauline monastery, the Liechtenstein crypt under the nave, and food either at the restaurant of Penzion Na Gruntě on the edge of the village or at the spiritual centre beside the church, which feeds pilgrims.
History
Vranov u Brna at the top has been a pilgrimage village since Maximilian of Liechtenstein founded its Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary and a monastery of the Minim friars there between 1622 and 1633, and the historic pilgrim way to it climbed from Královo Pole in Brno through Soběšice and Útěchov, lined with wayside shrines dating from 1647, rather than up this side of the hill. The Adamov approach is a minor road, since no railway or main road reaches Vranov at all, and it tops out beside Zavíravá at 525 m, the highest point of the Vranov area, on ground Brno riders use to get out of the Svitava valley and into the Moravian Karst.
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Common questions
- How long and steep is Zavíravá u Vranova (Adamov → Vranov u Brna)?
- Zavíravá u Vranova (Adamov → Vranov u Brna) is a 7.1 km cycling climb averaging 4.0% (+280 m), rising from 248 m to 528 m in Czechia.
- Where is Zavíravá u Vranova (Adamov → Vranov u Brna) steepest?
- The steepest 500 m averages 7.3%, between km 0.3 and km 0.7 of the climb.
- What is the road surface like on Zavíravá u Vranova (Adamov → Vranov u Brna)?
- Zavíravá u Vranova (Adamov → Vranov u Brna) is paved throughout.