Tiské stěny rocks

Tiské stěny rocks are situated in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains protected landscape area, where they are protected as a natural monument. Over the millennia, movements in the Earth's crust and the weather shaped what was originally a sandstone plateau, some 90 million years old, into a region of rock walls, canyons and bizarre sandstone towers, gorges, overhangs and caves. The entire area, broken up by a system of perpendicular fissures, forms a dense network of narrow gorges and ravines with wider open spaces, somewhat reminiscent of a small town with its streets and squares. Tiské stěny rocks are divided up into several parts: Great Walls, Small Walls, Ridge Walls, Bürschlické Walls and Walls beyond the Path. There are sightseeing footpaths and a nature trail running through some of them.

You can get to Tisá either on foot from the Libouchec station on the Děčín – Oldřichov u Duchcova railway line (3 km along the road), or take the bus from Ústí n. Labem towards Petrovice (17 km) to Děčín towards Tisá (21 km), or towards Libouchec and then walk along the road to Tisá.

To the west the Tiské skály connect with the rocks around the village of Rájec and, to the north (1 km north of the Tourist Chalet) with the rocks around Ostrov, forming a large area in which the character, composition, hardness and layering of the sandstone rocks vary greatly.

According to the available sources, climbers began to discover the rocks later than those near Rájec or Ostrov. The first known ascents were on the Elephant Column, on 10th August 1907, on the Mummy, on 23rd August 1907, and on the Dog, on 26th July 1908.