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Natural PlacesSite Name: Vidče Stone Spheres Alternative Name: Kamenné Koule VidčeCountry: Czech Republic
NOTE: This site is 44.277 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Bohemia Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Rožnov pod Radhoštěm Nearest Village: Vidče
Latitude: 49.440881N Longitude: 18.095667E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Bohemia
Vidče is the old east moravian village, first mentioned in chronicles in 1310. Is located in the hilly heart of very original "Wallachia" land. Vidče village became very popular between local people as well as between professionals because of the discovery in the nearby quarry. In mid 90th found employees of the quarry pritty peculiar stone objects.
Several huge spheres or egg shaped stones of diameters up to 3 metres. Some were left in the rock wall of the quarry and are practically unapproachable these days. But two were placed in the middle of the village like a decorations.
Of course there were many wild theories regarding origin or purpose of these spheres. According the most likely geological survey the spheres are the same material as surroundings and are 55 till 65 mil years old. They were created by the pressure when rotating in the rock. However some of the objects have inside allegedly completely different material which is covered in about 5 cm thick shell, which fact no one explained.
All around the world can be found similar objects, e.g. stone spheres of Costa Rica. But in this part of the Europe it is very rare. Actually the only other such place is not far away about 30km near the Czech / Slovak border. I must go there during my next visit...
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