Nature park Hostivař-Záběhlice, Nature park in southeastern Prague, Czech Republic.
Nature Park Hostivař-Záběhlice covers 423 hectares in southeastern Prague, declared in March 1990. It runs along the Botič between the Hostivař reservoir, the largest water surface in Prague, and the Hamerský pond in Záběhlice, and includes the protected Meandry Botiče meanders. It has two parts joined by a narrow corridor: the upper one with both slopes of the Botič valley and the reservoir, the lower one with the Botič floodplain.
The park was created in 1990 to protect green land as Prague expanded around it. This step preserved a natural space within the growing city.
The park serves as a place where locals walk, cycle, and spend leisure time among green spaces that sit between city neighborhoods. A historic cherry orchard in the area shows that fruit cultivation has long been part of the local landscape.
The park connects to several city neighborhoods and has marked trails for walking and cycling with varying difficulty levels. Bring appropriate footwear, as ground conditions change with the seasons.
On the Kozinec ridge above the right bank of the Hostivař reservoir, a low earthen rampart survives from a Hallstatt hillfort of about the 5th century BC. Unlike other Prague Slavic hillforts built with timber, this one was raised from earth and stone alone, and it ended in an intense fire.
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