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On the edge of the city and the mountains
The city in front, the mountains behind.
The villa stands on Jizerská street in Starý Harcov – on the eastern edge of Liberec, where the city turns into forest and the Jizera Mountains. A quiet, green address, and still five minutes from the centre.
Jizerská street is one of the historic axes of the district – the road from here to Rudolfov was built as early as 1910–11. Starý Harcov is sought after for combining nature and quiet with access to the city; popular with families, with a low crime rate. Above the district rises the forest, and below it lies the Harcov dam, and a short way off are Lidové sady with the zoo and the botanical garden.
Liberec lies in a basin, the villa on its eastern slope. From the window you look across the city to Ještěd; behind the building the ground keeps rising into the Jizera Mountains. This is the address in a single picture.
The difference of a hundred metres in height compared with the centre is why the air is different here, the quiet is different, and the snow comes earlier in winter. It is also why the apartments face south: the slope falls away towards the city and nothing stands in the way of the view.
The Harcov dam lies a short way below the building, in the valley of the Harcov brook – a walk down to the water goes downhill, and back uphill.
The first valley dam in Bohemia, completed in 1904. You can walk the circuit around the water after work.
An Art Nouveau pavilion and the oldest zoo in the country right next door.
The oldest botanical garden in the country (1895), with glasshouses shaped like a crystal druse.
A mountain settlement at the end of Jizerská street. From here on there is only forest, tracks and mountains.
The start of the Jizerská magistrála – cross-country skiing in winter, cycling and hiking in summer.
The transmitter and hotel on the summit, ski slopes and a cable car. From the villa you have it in sight.
Aerial photographs of the surroundings of the building, 14 August 2026.
Jizerská 226/25, Liberec-Starý Harcov. A tourist map – click a point on the map or a card below.
Distances and times are approximate.
I will gladly show you the villa and the district in person. We will agree a time that suits you.