Sights The countryside of Trebon area, particularly the fishponds, provides a highly suitable environment for recreation: cycling, canoeing, mushroom picking, angling, hiking, and hunting. The main influx of tourists takes place during the summer holidays, when the ponds, sandpit lakes, and streams are suitable for swimming and boating. Luznice river and associated parts of the Nova reka canal and Nezarka river are among the most popular canoeing routes in the Czech Republic. Apart from these waterbodies, the vast forests are the most attractive recreation sites, and are visited by both hikers and bilberry-pickers, mainly on summer and autumn weekends. Visitors to the Trebon countryside are attracted also by sightseeing at historical monuments. The flat but diverse and attractive Trebon countryside is an ideal region for cycling. The most important areas of recreation and camping are Trebon and its surroundings (fishponds Svet and Opatovicky) and Chlum u Trebone ( fishponds Stankovsky and Hejtman). The conditions and capacity for summer recreation in the Trebon region are increased by several tens of summer camps, several hundreds of private vacation houses and by many holiday facilities owned by private or state companies or by trade unions. In the Tøeboò region, as throughout southern Bohemia, walled rural architecture is prevalent in the countryside. Even though high-rise buildings were constructed in villages and ancient farmhouses were inconveniently reconstructed into urban family houses in the period of large-scale agriculture between 1948 and 1989, many original farmsteads, chapels, forges, and wayside columns remain. Today, many villages preserve the Rural Baroque, a style of houses which spread over the north-western and northern parts of the Tøeboò countryside in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Besides recreation in the open air and in sports and recreation facilities, the town of Trebon has been famous since 1883 for health resort treatments, and was recognized as a spa in 1960. There are two spa houses (Berta and Aurora) in Trebon at present. The Trebon spa provides all kinds of treatment for spine, muscle and joint diseases including a traditional mud-bath treatment using peat from local deposits as a remedy. Relaxation programs, ambulant curative procedures and public use of swimming pools are also offered by the spa. The name Waldviertel (forest district), deriving from the extensive forest cover of this region in the north-west of Niederösterreich, paints a realistic picture of this rough, yet totally idyllic landscape. The Waldviertel is not just rich in castles and monasteries, it also boasts a host of mystical places which form the basis for a wealth of sagas and fairytales. A typical feature of the Waldviertel are the many high moorland areas and the so-called Wackelsteine (rocking stones), granite rocks weighing several tonnes which are poised so precariously that a touch in a certain place can set them in motion. Agriculture and forestry still play a key role in the Waldviertel. However, health tourism is developing into an increasingly important extra string to the region's economic bow. Countless spas, moorland baths and centres geared up to treat heart/circulatory problems and dispense general fitness invite visitors to enjoy relaxation and regeneration. The idyllic landscape and the well-developed tourism infrastructure are ideally suited to extended walks and cycle tours, as well as cross-country skiing in winter. Many of the well-marked tours and routes also lead into neighbouring Bohemia and Moravia - a successful example of functioning cross-border co-operation across the former Iron Curtain. In recent years, a large number of extensive and scenically delightful golf courses have opened in the Waldviertel, helping to make the region a Mecca of this sport. Useful information about other touristic attractions can be found at : http://www.waldviertel.at/ http://www.sdruzeniruze.cz http://www.trebon-mesto.cz http://www.noel.gv.at/service/lad/lad1/er/english/Waldviertel.htm