A cliffside path to a filled up gallery on second level of Alkazar quarry

Before World War II., the Prague Ironmongering Company used to exploit high-percentage limestones in this well-known quarry of Český kras ("Bohemian Karst"). All levels of the quarry are now overgrown by grass trampled by many visitors - river tourists on boats, who are allowed to camp here, climbers, who hang almost every sunny weekend in large numbers on the cliffs, and the quarry itself is named after hikers group called "Alkazar". Some of former mining galleries, which connected parts of quarry levels through central rock called "Matterhorn", are filled up by clay, because there were some fatal accidents in the central shaft of "Matterhorn". This path leads to one of these closed galleries on the second level. The other part of this level is accessible only by climbing.

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