If you see a sign reading “Havraníky”, don’t hesitate to make a stop in this picturesque Moravian village with a long tradition of winemaking. Noteworthy sights in the village are long, rugged underground corridors running in all directions from the wine cellars.
The wine cellar complex in Havraníky is located on the lower edge of town. Exploring the local underground is a great adventure – one of the local cellars has extensive and rugged corridors becoming so narrow that not even the owner has dared to go to all the way to the end. A unique treasure in Havraníky is a landmark-protected Baroque grape-pressing mill, which has a statue of the Virgin Mary in the niche above the entrance dating from 1718. The network of corridors below the mill is undoubtedly much older. The centuries-old cellars here, some over a kilometre in length, were dug mainly in the winter, when there was little work to be done in the vineyards. This is how they got the fine sand from which the plaster of many buildings of Vienna is still made to this day. On the walls of the cellars you can admire engravings depicting architectural elements – pilasters, capitals, cornices and columns; also visible are picturesque reliefs intended as cellar decoration.