Bohemian Basin & Central Bohemian Uplands from Pražská vyhlídka (Rip Mt., North Bohemia)
N 50° 23.049 E 014° 17.320
33U E 449428 N 5581585
Pražská vyhlídka (Prague Outlook), a small rocky-steppe part of upper southern slope of Ríp Mt., offers great 180° vista over surrounding pictoresque landscape of Northern and Central Bohemia.
Waymark Code: WMTZYC
Location: Ústecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/30/2017
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Pražská vyhlídka (Prague Outlook), a small rocky-steppe part of upper southern slope of Ríp Mt., offers great 180° vista over surrounding pictoresque landscape of Northern and Central Bohemia.
Ríp Mountain (Czech: hora Ríp), also known as Ríp Hill, is a 459 m solitary hill rising up from the central Bohemian flatland where, according to legend, the first Czechs settled. Geologically, Ríp is the erosional remnant of a Late Oligocene volcano and is composed of basalt nephelites containing olivine granules, amphibole, leucite and — among others — magnetite, so a local magnetic anomaly can even be observed there by the compass. The hill was bare until 1879 when Moric Lobkowitz had it planted with trees. Today, almost all of the mountain is covered by an oak-and-hornbeam forest with some maple, pine ash, and linden trees. Ríp, being visible from great distance, has always been an important orientation point in the Bohemian scenery and has attracted attention since the oldest times. [wiki]