Mikulov

Mikulov is a town of 7,700 people (2020) in South Moravia on the Brünner Straße (the old imperial road from Vienna to Brno) near the border with Austria. It is particularly worth seeing because of the listed, well-preserved city centre and the castle.

Understand
Mikulov is a centre of Czech wine-making due to its favorable geographic location and climate, as well as its unique history. Mikulov is the centre and the namesake of the Moravian wine sub-region called Mikulovská wine region. There are twelve registered cadastral vineyard tracts within the Mikulov wine village as defined under the Czech Viticulture Act.

Other significant economic activities in Mikulov are the machine-making and clay industries, as well as oil found at the edge of the Vienna Basin.

Get in
Mikulov is located about 18 kilometres northwest of Břeclav.

By plane
The nearest airport is Brno.

By train
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By car
It takes about 25 min to drive from Břeclav to Mikulov on Highway 40 and 1 hour from Vienna to Mikulov.

By bike or on foot
The Iron Curtain Trail leads through the city.

The South Moravian Way of St. James ends at the state border near Mikulov, where it continues as the Way of St. James in Weinviertel.

You can cycle in 1.5 hours from Břeclav to Mikulov.

See

 * The Baroque Church of St. John the Baptist was consecrated in 1679 and belonged to the Piarist college. The interior has valuable decoration by painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch.
 * The neo-Gothic Orthodox Church of St. Nicolas was built in 1903.
 * On the Svatý Kopeček Hill, there is the Chapel of St. Sebastian. The way to the chapel is lined by Stations of the Cross.
 * The Baroque Church of St. John the Baptist was consecrated in 1679 and belonged to the Piarist college. The interior has valuable decoration by painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch.
 * The neo-Gothic Orthodox Church of St. Nicolas was built in 1903.
 * On the Svatý Kopeček Hill, there is the Chapel of St. Sebastian. The way to the chapel is lined by Stations of the Cross.
 * The neo-Gothic Orthodox Church of St. Nicolas was built in 1903.
 * On the Svatý Kopeček Hill, there is the Chapel of St. Sebastian. The way to the chapel is lined by Stations of the Cross.

Do
Beginning in Mikulov, the 65-km-long (40 mi) Mikulov Wine Trail winds throughout the Mikulovská wine region and is a part of wine tourism in the area.