Bolt Tower

It was a new experience. It's not about nature or architecture. But immersion in the era of industrialization: metal, huge structures, many pipes, rust, and again metal.Everything is safe and free

Bolt Tower is a unique tourist attraction in the industrial area of Dolni Vitkovice. The place was started as early as in 1830 and stopped operating in 1998. Soon after it become a national heritage site. It was used for producing iron metals in several furnaces. The Bolt Tower itself is built as an extension of furnace No. 1. It is great piece of architecture (by Josef Pleskot) and definitely worth visiting. Do not go there if you afraid of hights and only guided tours are allowed. So it is advised to book the tickets in advance.

Unique place, from the outside looks like taken from Mad Max, tremendous view at the steel mill around. Small cafe on top pf the tower has quite gopd coffee and some sweets. Very nice and helpful staff. Must go in Ostrava.

Great place to visit on weekend escapade to learn something new. Perfect for anyone who loves history and old industrial climate. The view from the tower itself is breathtaking as well!

Fantastic place for urbex lovers.Four stars only because there should be more information about this place, its history etc. (or a guide who tells visitors everything - how the plant worked, how many people worked here and there. The plant is so huge, so I'm sure that visitors would like to know more about huge vats, buildings they can see)Respect for Ostrava officials that they decided to open this unusual and impressive place to the public.

You wouldn’t expect to find a shiny place like this located within the retired foundry/metalworks, but it is a neat experience. Make a reservation in advance to enjoy the café, which gives you some neat views of the surrounding area while sipping coffee. Test your nerves by walking in the circular, graded walkway around the tower.

Wonderful experience for fans of urban and industrial aesthetics, beauty of decay and destruction.Bolt tower observation platform is reachable by elevator, then you can walk up and enjoy the view. Worth visiting!Dolni Vitkovice is a huge area where you can easily spend a half of a day just wandering around toothless rusty sleeping beasts. Not crowded at all during working days. Guided tours, museum, gallery, cafés - quite good infrastructure. The territory is not abandoned for luck, it's full of afterlife.Don't forget to buy postcards at U6 gallery and stamp them with wonderful trademark ink stamps at the infocenter.

If you’d like to see Ostrava industrial party of city from bird perspective, that’s the right place. In the price of ticket is also 100 CZK offer to compensate spending at the tower restaurant. Amazing view to the city and Beskydy mountains, bit adrenaline walk outside is top highlights. You can combine visit with the guide tour at old steel factory.

Avoid if you don't speak Czech.The Czech tour guide seemed nice and very knowledgeable however the English audio guide was dreadful. Constantly repeating itself, poor grammar, a lack of detail and being completely missing in large sections the guide was explaining. The worst of it being the numbered stations indicating where to start the next part were often missing entirely or the number did not correlate to the correct audio track. Overall it created a frustrating experience that I was looking forward to the end of.I do want to reiterate that it does seem like a great experience assuming you speak Czech and I obviously can't speak to the quality of the audio guides in other languages.

Went to ostrava for 1 day. Go to bolt tower they said, there's a nice cafe there, they said.. so I hired bikes, cycled out there, eventually found a bike stand. Really badly signposted, when you get to the tower, there's a sign that says you have to get a ticket from somewhere else. When we found that place, we were told we couldn't go up for 2 hours, because it was booked hourly, and we should go find a cafe to wait for those 2 hours, just to go up to the cafe for an hour.... brilliant, so obvs didn't go. TELL PEOPLE YOU NEED TO BOOK IN ADVANCE - YOU MUPPETS