Dolany nad Vltavou (until 2016 Dolany) is a municipality and village in

Mělník District Mělník District ( cs, okres Mělník) is a district ('' okres'') within Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Mělník. Complete list of municipalities Býkev - Byšice - Chlumín - Chorušice - Chvatěrub ...

in the

Central Bohemian Region The Central Bohemian Region ( cz, Středočeský kraj, german: Mittelböhmische Region) is an administrative unit ( cz, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the central part of its historical region of Bohemia. Its administrative centre is in ...

of the

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. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

The village of Debrno is an administrative part of Dolany nad Vltavou.

Geography

Dolany nad Vltavou is located about southeast of Mělník and north of

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

. It lies in the

Prague Plateau The Prague Plateau ( cs, Pražská plošina) is a plateau and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the area of Prague and in the Central Bohemian Region. Geomorphology The Prague Plateau is a mesoregion of the B ...

. The municipality is situated on the left bank of the

Vltava Vltava ( , ; german: Moldau ) is the longest river in the Czech Republic, running southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia, through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice and Prague, and finally merging with the Labe at M ...

River in the place, where the rocky valley of the Vltava ends and begins a plain typical for the confluence of the rivers Vltava and

Elbe The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Repu ...

. The highest point of the municipality has an elevation of .

History

The first written mention of Dolany is from 1318. Debrno was first mentioned in 1437. In 2016, the municipality changed its name to Dolany nad Vltavou.

Transport

Dolany nad Vltavou lies on the railway line from Prague to

Ústí nad Labem Ústí nad Labem (, , ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 92,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of its eponymous region and district. It is a major industrial centre and, besides being an active river port, is an important railway ju ...

Sights

The historic centre of the village of Debrno is well preserved and protected as a village monument zone. There are homesteads from the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, with modifications from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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* {{authority control Villages in Mělník District