The beginnings of the Michalov Park area date back to the second half of the 19th century when an excursion restaurant was built in this place. The park began to be laid out according to the project of the garden architect František Thomayer from Prague. The years after war brought a gradual devastation of the park which was stopped only at the beginning of the 90´s of the past century when the Municipal Authorities started its extensive restoration and after having done so, the park was presented to the public in its original beauty again. Probably the greatest botanical peculiarity of the park is Colobium taraxacoides. This inconspicuous herb with yellow flowers appeared in the park probably by accident, during landscape gardening. Owing to this fact, the park is the only known place in the Czech Republic, where this herb can be found.

History

Originally this location was a part of ebračka. Its history in 19th century is served as an excursion and sporting place from that time. The idea of the rebuilding Michalov to the town park was camed out in 1903. The Decorating club, the chairman of which was Dr. Riedl, charged the Prague architect František Thomayer to make a new design of Michalov. In January 1904 the design was completed and the realization started. The architect suggested a plenty of flowers, precise, ornaments, rims with flowers, bushes and trees with distinct tops. The particularity of this park is that it was built on the grounds of original flood-plain forest. In this area grew the main Flower promenade, divided by the fountain in the middle.

Against the colonnade there is the French flower section. The flower promenade was inaugurated during the gymnastic performance of the Club of Ladies in 1905 and the park was considered the pride of the Přerov and soon after its founding it became the most popular place of our town. In 1912 the music pavilion was built there. In 1920 the inauguration of the stone sculpture, with relief of world-known Master John Hus made by the sculptor Julius Pelikán, took place at the end of the colonnade. The huge amount of flowers between 1921-1928 required building greenhouses. After this palm house was built there, as well as the rose garden and the alpine rockery in the following years.

After establishing Michalov as a town park the number of its visitors grew up. In the 1936 the Central Moravian exhibition with many stands and with a topical parachute tower was organized there. The Přerovians took their park for a place of enjoyment and relaxation. Droves of people used to walk along the colonnade and Sunday concerts became a tradition. After November 1989 the town of Přerov took back the Michalov Park as its property. In 1992 Michalov was proclaimed a cultural monument. Different sculptures are to be found in the park. On the right side of the entrance to the park from Máchova Street the bust of Jiří Sumín (pen name of Amálie Vrbová) from 1952 is situated. Few metres along there are two busts  the first of Augustin Mervart, an artist from Přerov, and the second of Josef Baják, made of bronze in 1982.

GPS: Michalov: 49°27'36.51"N, 17°27'24.432"E

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