Live Webcams in Rtyně v Podkrkonoší

Rtyně v Podkrkonoší is a small former coal town under the Jestřebí hills in the northeast of Bohemia, in the Hradec Králové region, and the live webcams in Rtyně v Podkrkonoší show an ordinary Czech town going about its day: its squares and streets, the church tower over the roofs, the buses and the school run, the market days and the December tree, and the wooded hills that start at the last houses. The town keeps Central European Time, UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer; the hills hold snow from December to March and go green in May, and summer weekends send walkers out along the trails to the old mine workings. Black coal was found here in 1590 and mined for four centuries, until the last pit closed in 1990, and the town museum holds the largest mining exhibition in the region. The town was called Hertiny until 1931.