Velká hůra
Peak · 458 m · Czechia
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This steep, forested cone rises abruptly 2 km east of Mladějov and is one of Český ráj's celebrated viewpoints, its rocky summit opening a panorama across the region's rolling sandstone country to the towers of Trosky castle on the skyline. The hill is the eroded remnant of an extinct volcano: an abandoned quarry on its flank has stripped away the surface to expose the volcanic neck's subsurface structure, a mix of neovulcanite, claystone and marl left when basaltic magma rose along a west-southwest-trending fracture that produced several such volcanic hills across the area. Geomorphologically it belongs to the Prachov Rocks sub-district of the Turnov Hills within the Jičín Uplands, and the whole hill lies inside the Český ráj Protected Landscape Area. Locally it is still known as Střelečská hůra, after the neighboring village of Střeleč, and yellow- and red-marked hiking trails cross its slopes, meeting below the summit at the junction "Pod Střelečskou hůrou".
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Velká hůra (458 m, neoficiálně Střelečská hůra) je vrch v okrese Jičín Královéhradeckého kraje, v CHKO Český ráj. Leží asi dva kilometry východně od Mladějova u Sobotky, na katastrálním území vsi Střeleč a obce Zámostí.