Rafter Attic Room
Second floor, under the original roof timbers, with brick gable walls and wide boards underfoot.
12 rooms
Olomouc · Moravia · Czechia
Olmarova
Forty-four rooms in a burgher house on the upper square, rebuilt in baroque form after the fire of 1709. A vaulted passage leads from the square to the courtyard, and the first-floor salon has a painted ceiling dated 1721. The restaurant is down in a cellar cut into the rock, and in the evenings a small casino floor fills the room behind the salon.
The house
Built of three centuries
The plot is medieval, and the cellar is the oldest part of it, hewn out of the rock the square was laid over. It served as a store, a brewhouse and a shelter before it became a dining room. The house above it was raised, burnt and raised again: the street front is the work of masons who finished in 1714, and the courtyard wing belongs to a slower builder who stopped in 1748.
Most of it is still in place. The passage has its groin vault and iron gate, and the salon upstairs has a painted ceiling of fruit, instruments and a grey sky, signed in one corner and dated 1721. Three rooms on the square side look straight at the astronomical clock. No lobby was built; reception is still a desk in the hall, where it has always stood.
- 44 rooms across four types, on three floors and the attic
- Reception staffed around the clock, in the hall by the passage
- Lift at the back of the hall; the stone stair is the older route
- Breakfast in the cellar from 07:00, in the courtyard when it is warm
Rooms
Four kinds of room
The rooms are not alike and the house doesn't pretend otherwise. They sit at different heights under different ceilings, and we let them as four types.
Painted Ceiling Room
First floor, beside the salon, with a worked plaster cornice and the tallest windows in the house.
8 roomsClockface Room
First and second floor on the square side. Three of them take in the astronomical clock whole.
10 roomsLinden Courtyard Room
Ground floor and mezzanine on the courtyard, quiet, with the linden tree at the window.
14 rooms
Eating and drinking
Four rooms with a kitchen behind them
The Rock Cellar
Dinner under the barrel vault, on the rock itself. The Moravian menu is written out each Tuesday.
Dinner, Tue to SatPassage Café
Six tables in the vaulted passage, open to the square. Coffee, soup and whatever the baker sent.
Daily from 08:00Lamplight Bar
First floor, a round counter in walnut and brass, lit low. Moravian wine by the glass.
EveningsCourtyard Terrace
Twelve tables under the linden from May to September, with breakfast laid outside when it is dry.
Summer only
First floor, behind the salon
Olmarova Casino
The casino floor is part of the house, with no address of its own. Come through the vaulted passage, take the stone stair or the lift at the back of the hall, and cross the painted ceiling salon. The door at the far end opens into one room with a few tables and a bar at the window end, open in the evenings only.
The legal age is 18, and we check photo identification at the door on every visit, hotel guests included. Staff set limits on the floor, so ask before you sit down. The casino is a land-based room in an old house. This website offers no online games and takes no bets, deposits or payments.
Where it is
On the square, under the clock
Olomouc has two squares, one after the other. The upper holds the town hall, the clock and the Holy Trinity Column, and the lower has two more fountains and the quieter cafés. The house stands on the upper square with its gate on Riegrova, a few minutes from the column and twelve minutes from the main station by tram.
- Riegrova 14, 779 00 Olomouc, Czechia
- Main railway station: 12 minutes by tram, 25 on foot
- Public garage on the ring road, 300 metres; the square itself is restricted
- Saint Wenceslas Cathedral and the chapter houses: 15 minutes uphill