Malý Blaník, Nature reserve in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, Czech Republic.

Malý Blaník is a nature reserve covering most of the 580 m hill of the same name in the Blaník massif, in the Benešov district south of Vlašim. It protects a natural acidophilous beech forest on Blanická orthorulite rock formations, with rare species such as the stock dove and the Eurasian eagle-owl. At the summit stand the perimeter walls of a Baroque chapel from 1753.

The area became an officially protected nature reserve in 1992, securing legal protection for its ecosystems. This designation was part of broader efforts to preserve natural habitats across the Benešov region.

Pilgrimages to Malý Blaník were dedicated to Mary Magdalene, documented by a 1543 text from Vlašim priest Václav Rosa; a Mass was held on 22 July. The baroque chapel of St Mary Magdalene, built before 1753 under Archbishop Khünburg, now stands as ruins whose perimeter walls survive.

The reserve lies in the first zone of the Blaník Protected Landscape Area, about 10 km south of Vlašim, on the slope of the 580 m Malý Blaník. A red-marked hiking trail and the Malý Blaník – Podlesí educational trail run through it. The summit holds the ruin of the Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, and the bedrock is Blaník orthorule.

Inside the ruin of the Chapel of St Mary Magdalene stands a protected Norway spruce called Velký Mnich, also known as Farář. The chapel was consecrated before 1753 and closed in 1783 under Joseph II's reforms; only its perimeter walls remain.