The University Arboretum

The Residence park and park buildings are an architectural monument of national importance (oc. No. 778/5) since August 24, 1963.

The arboretum, with an area of about 5 hectares, was planned in a landscape style at the same time as the Residence. It was beeing looked after by the best gardeners with a mandatory higher education. Its beginning is a natural playground with amazing pyramidal thuja trees, in the centre of which there is a bronze bust of Josef Hlavka (chief architect of the CHNU Residence). Behind it, dried up in the 1970s, is a 9-meter well, which once contained mineral water, and there are 2 round fountains on both sides. 

Then the park begins. The central alley rests on a small pond, and from here the alleys diverge in different directions with asymmetrical planting of trees, open lawns. The oldest tree in the park is a 130-year-old beech. 

Most of the decorative elements in the design have been preserved to this day: artificial slides, garden benches, sculptures. A little further, behind the trees hides an artificial stone cave, the purpose of which has given rise to many legends – from the place of "imprisonment" of guilty students of the Theological Faculty to the entrance to the underground passage to the railway station. Some claim that a bear was kept here. Peacocks and roe deer once inhabited the park. Today, squirrels and owls remain the most exotic inhabitants.