Žatec and the landscape of Saaz hops on the UNESCO World Heritage List from 2023.
Did you know that Žatec is a favourite place for film-makers? We have a whole exhibition about it in the Malt House Gallery - Jojo Rabbit, The Zoo Keeper's Wife, Yentl and many more, That's Žatec!
Žatec is a town of one hundred-chimneys! From the legacy of the former hop kilns or sulphur chambers, we have dozens of them left, so we even named them…
How many times have you walked across Žatec's main Svobody ( Freedom) Square without noticing the grave of Lojza Lupulín, the oldest beer drinker? It's locatation is not far from the central plague column!
The Žatec hop-growing region produces the world's finest hop variety, Saaz. Why is it only in our area that the semi-early red bine hop thrives? Find out on our tour of the Hop & Beer Temple…
Who were the homolupules? Discover the history of the ancient inhabitants of the Žatec hop-growing region and explore their beer culture.
