Centrum Veronica Hostětín – ekologická vesnice a vzdělávání

Location: Hostětín 86, 687 71 Bojkovice · Zlín Region

Category: ecological education centre

A certified environmental education centre in the ecological village of Hostětín, offering hands-on learning within a showcase of ecological projects. Students can visit a BIO apple juice press, a traditional fruit drying house, a community biomass heating plant, a constructed wetland wastewater treatment system, and various types of solar installations. The centre is housed in a model passive house and offers both day and residential programmes for kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.

Why visit this place?

• Hostetin has only 214 inhabitants, yet on 22 March 2010 Britain's Prince Charles came to see its environmental projects.
• The village runs a biomass heating plant, a juice pressing house, a root waste-water treatment plant and a passive house; in 2009 it won the Czech Solar Prize.
• Rated 4.6 out of 5 by 154 visitors on Google Maps.
• Besides the tour there are hands-on workshops, so children get to make something themselves.
• Allow roughly two hours; the programme is aimed at every age group from preschool to secondary school.
• There are 31 more tips within 25 km, enough to build a full-day trip.

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Practical information

• Opening hours: Mon–Fri 9–17, weekends by arrangement
• Typical visit: 120 min
• Admission: Prices vary by programme length and type, on request
• Visitor rating: 4.6 ★ from 154 reviews on Google Maps
• Suitable for: preschool (3–6), primary (6–10), lower secondary (10–15), secondary (15+)

For schools

Day and residential educational programmes for kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, focused on renewable energy sources, ecology and sustainable development. Programmes take place directly in the ecological village among the showcase projects.

Official website: https://hostetin.veronica.cz

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