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Ostravice is located about 15 kilometres (9 mi) south of Frýdek-Místek and 30 km (19 mi) south of Ostrava. It lies in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids. The highest point is next to the top of Lysá hora at 1,322 m (4,337 ft) above sea level. The municipality is situated in the valley of the Ostravice River.
Ostrava Days exposition is organized by the Ostrava Center for New Music (OCNM), an organization founded in 2000 by a Czech composer living in New York Petr Kotík. The institution was established solely for the purpose of organizing Ostrava Days, an event that consists of two parts—a summer institute and festival. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Ostrava is the economic centre of the entire Moravian-Silesian Region. With only one exception, all the largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava-City District and at least 1,000 employees have their seat in Ostrava. The largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava and at least 1,500 employees are: [6]
Colours of Ostrava, or simply Colours, a multi-genre event, is the biggest international music festival in Czechia and one of the biggest in Central Europe, held every summer since 2002 in Ostrava, the third largest city in the country. Colours features 16 stages, including 4 big open-air stages (the main one with a capacity of 15,000), 6 ...
The first two years were held in Ostrava at Černá louka. Since 2003, the event has been held at Leoš Janáček Ostrava Airport . Turkish Stars group during NATO Days, 2013 The first delivered Bell UH-1Y to the Czech Air Force on a public display at the airshow in September 2023
In a broader point of view, the Ostravice (as Bílá Ostravice) originates in the territory of Bílá on the border between the Hostýn-Vsetín Mountains and Moravian-Silesian Beskids at an elevation of 751 m (2,464 ft) and flows to Ostrava, where it enters the Oder River at an elevation of 199 m (653 ft). It is 64.7 km (40.2 mi) long.
After founding the town of Moravská Ostrava between 1268 and 1278 on Moravian side, the village left on the Silesian side was called in contrary Slavic and later Polish. [3] Since 1290 it belonged to the Duchy of Teschen , which in 1327 became a fee of Kingdom of Bohemia , which after 1526 became part of the Habsburg monarchy .
The Michal Mine (Czech: důl Michal) is a former coal mine and now a museum in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It is a museum of mining located in the pit bank of a former hard coal mine. The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage. [1] The buildings have been preserved as they looked at the turn of the 20th century.