Tachlovice is a municipality and village in
Prague-West District in the
Central Bohemian Region of the
Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
Geography
Tachlovice lies about southwest of
Prague. It lies on the Radotínský creek, in a flat agricultural landscape of 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 highest point of the municipality is at above sea level.
Culture
Veteran Car Club Tachlovice was founded in 1960. Since 1976, it organizes a veteran cars exhibition and contest called Tachlovice Triangle. It is held once a year in memory of the founder Jan Horák. Vehicles manufactured until the 1970s are displayed near the village common and some of them later compete driving on the triangle route.
Sights
The Baroque complex of the Church of Saint James the Great is a cultural monument. It represents an architecturally and urbanistically valuable set of buildings from the 1740s with clear remnants of the original Gothic construction. It contains the church and a cemetery chapel.
Tachlovice
White Willow
''Salix alba'', the white willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia.Meikle, R. D. (1984). ''Willows and Poplars of Great Britain and Ireland''. BSBI Handbook No. 4. .Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain an ...
is a memorable tree, one of the largest of its kind in
Bohemia
Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...
with a shaft circuit of .
Gallery
Tachlovice CZ St James the Great church 359.jpg, Church of Saint James the Great, front view
Tachlovice CZ St James the Great church 363.jpg, Church of Saint James the Great, side view
Tachlovice CZ graveyard chapel 362.jpg, Graveyard chapel
Bfara, Tachlovice.jpg, Former rectory
References
External links
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Tachlovice Triangle
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Villages in Prague-West District