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About Liberec.com

An independent guide to one northern city and the mountains around it.

Liberec.com exists because this city deserves more than a glance from the motorway on the way to the ski slopes. It is an independent guide to Liberec and the country around it, written to be genuinely useful before you go and while you are there.

What we cover

  • How to get here from Prague, Germany and Poland, with realistic journey times.
  • What to see in the city, in the Jizera Mountains and within an hour’s travel.
  • The things that are easy to get wrong: the Ještěd cable car, winter opening times, which tours start where.
  • Which tours are worth booking — and when you do not need one.
  • Where to sleep, from the centre to the tower on the mountain.

How we research

Dates, heights and travel times are checked against official, operator and reference sources and reviewed regularly. Tour ratings and review counts come directly from GetYourGuide; hotel scores from Trip.com. Where a figure moves around — ticket prices, timetables, the reopening of a cable car — we give an approximate figure or say plainly that you should check, rather than pretending to a precision that does not exist.

Where we express an opinion, it is an opinion. We tell you when a product is new and unreviewed, when a day trip starts in another city, and when the free option is the best one.

How the site is funded

We are a GetYourGuide affiliate partner and link to Trip.com for accommodation. If you book a tour or a room through a link on this site, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That is the only way this guide is funded — there is no advertising, no sponsored placements and no paid inclusion in any ranking. Read the full affiliate disclosure.

Corrections

Prices change, lines are rebuilt, hotels change hands. If something here is out of date or wrong, please tell us — we would rather fix it than defend it. Write to us on the contact page.

Images

All photography on this site is freely licensed (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA) and sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Every photographer is credited on our image credits page.

Plan your days in the north

A tower on a mountain, a city at its foot

Liberec packs a science centre, a zoo, grand architecture and two mountain ranges into one short tram ride. Compare guided walks, hikes and day trips around the city and book in a couple of taps.