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"A little walk in our pension"
- there is such a small invitations to our pension under The Tisá walls on video file, where you'll find all
important places that can be seen in the Pension "At the end" ....
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Tourism - The Tisá Walls
A brief description
The Protected Country region Labské pískovce (The Elbe Sandstone Rocks) is a part of an extensice sandstone plateau that originated about 90 million years ago in the Cretaceous Mesozoic period. When the sea covering the northern part of the country retreated it left here layers of sandstone sediments cemented with kaolin, clay and other material. In the course of time the movement of the crust of the earth resulted in cracking of these sediments. Further gradual weathering, erosion, and the drifting away of materials resulted in richly diversified area of deep canyons and vertical walls covered by pictoresque shapes.
The most western part of Labské pískovce (The Elbe Sandstone Rocks) are Tiské stěny (The Tisá Walls) called after the nearby village Tisá. A massive rock wall is towering above the north end of Tisá, rising up to 70 meters. The Tisá Walls measure 613 meters at their highest point. They continue eastward for almost a kilometer where they end at the Tourist Chalet. We can come here across all forms of sandstone rocks. There are massive rock faces as well as isolated towers and narrow needles. They offer many ascents, more or less difficult ones, to the beginning as well as experienced mountain climbers. Group of towershaped formations resemble fortifications and care called castles. Narrow defiles run between the rock faces and there are wild gorges and ravines. You come across "boulder seas" caused by folding rock, with some boulders of magnificient size.
Two marked foot paths originate at the entrance to the Tisá Walls which is called Skalní náměstí (Rock Square): left, to the West a shorter route through the Small Walls, returning from the north; and right, to the east, the route through the Great Walls. A red marked foot paths runs from the Rock Square along the edge of the wall above the valley and above the Tisá village, with vistas opening to the south all the way to the Bohemian Midland.
From the Tourist Chalet it runs through Ostrov (a part of Tisá) as far as Děčínský Sněžník (726 meters above sea level) where there is a 30 meters high stone observation tower built in 1864. The red marked foot paths ends in the town of Děčín. The whole route is 19 kilometers long. The so called Rájecké skály (Rajec Rocks) are joining the Tisá Wals in the north-west near rajec (a part of Tisa). It is a massif of hard sandstone with rock towers. Their northern part is called Ptačí skály (Bird Rocks) and they follow to the south through Rájecké ůdolí (Rajec Valley). Northeast from Tisá lies the border village Ostrov (a part of Tisa) surrounded by Ostrovské skály (Ostrov Rocks). The walls and towers reaching up to 20 meters are formed by very hard sandstone, and are very favoured by mountain climbers for just that reason. .
Admission (from 1.1.2006)
- adult 30,- Kč, children 15,- Kč (only in summer season) - admission only for The Tisá Walls. Entry to Ostrov and Rájec Walls is free of charge.
The Tisá Wall's rocky square at sunset
