Kristina adit

In the valley of the Zlatý potok (Golden Creek) there is a large number of adits left after gold mining. Deep mining has been going on here since about the 13th century. Most of the adits were rehabilitated in the 1990s with entrance grates in the entrance parts. A nature trail called the Path of the Gold Diggers passes through the valley. The Kristýna adit is 350 m long and since 1960 the Institute of Geophysics of the CAS has had a seismic station in its three branches.

Part of the observatory’s visitor program is an excursion to the Kristýna adit 100 m into the rock massif to our seismic equipment.

• Tour: Medieval gold mining in the adit Kristýna and its surroundings, the gold mining district of Charles IV.
• Tour: Nature and its protection
• Tour: the geological development of the land and the site together with excursion to a working seismic station in the Kristina adit