Hády
Peak · 424.3 m · Czechia
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Hády (424 m), on Brno's northeast edge, is the southwestern outcrop of the Moravian Karst. Its radio and TV tower is visible from the city centre; the hillside limestone quarries reveal Devonian and Jurassic geology, now a nature reserve with excellent botanical and geological sites.
Past the quarry wall, the karst plateau northeast of Hády turns wooded, mostly oak groves mixed with hornbeam, with hawthorn and spindle filling the understory. That forest sits right beside decades of old limestone workings, bare rock next to living woodland in the same short stretch. The combination of exposed karst, scrub and quarry face makes Hády one of Brno's richest spots for geologists, botanists and entomologists alike. It has also become one of the city's favorite nearby escapes, an easy ride out of the eastern suburbs into open hill country.
What you see
The southwest flank of Hády is scored by old quarry faces, pale rock cut into the hillside where the forest breaks off; beyond the rim, the ridge turns into dense oak-hornbeam woodland along the plateau to the northeast.
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