In Budějovice
Solnice
On foot 19 min · By car 9 min
The historic Solnice from 1531 now combines a Renaissance hall with a restaurant and its own microbrewery. Beer does not arrive in barrels — it flows through pipes laid seventy metres beneath the square paving straight into the restaurant.
The building stands on Piaristické Square, four minutes from the main square, and for nearly five hundred years nobody has rebuilt it in any major way; under the roof it has the fourth-oldest roof truss of its kind in the Czech Republic. It has little to do with salt beyond the name — for most of its history it was the town granary, where people borrowed grain and then returned it. The restaurant seats two hundred, and the beer, unfiltered and unpasteurised, is brewed in the house next door.
Practical details
- On foot 19 min · By car 9 min
- Opening hours: zvenčí volně přístupné kdykoli. Restaurace a pivovar uvnitř mají vlastní otevírací dobu.
On site
The building from 1531 has a Renaissance stepped gable with loopholes. On the façade are stone faces of different sizes — three on the main front and a fourth on the west gable facing the blind arm of the Malše, so anyone who walks only the front finds three. Inside are a restaurant and brewery; beer does not come in barrels but through pipes seventy metres under the square paving.