Socialist Ostrava
Learn the story of Poruba – a city district founded as part of plans for creating New Ostrava in the 1950s. There has remained a unique housing complex built in the socialist realistic style. Walk along the broad boulevards between palaces built in the periodic Stalinist style.
- Length of the Tour: 100 minutes/2 km
- Start of the Tour: in the church of ST. Nicholass
- End of the Tour: The main boulevard near Alšovo square
What you visit and what you learn
- Ostrava after the Second World War – the steel heart of the republic
- The New Ostrava project
- Socialist realism and Stalinist architecture
- Palaces for workers
- The main boulevard – „Leninka“
- Nikita Khrushchev’s visit The Danube-Elbe-Oder Canal
Admission
- Group up to 10 people – 2500 CZK
- Group over 10 people – 250 CZK/person