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4.84 km 2 (1.87 sq mi) Elevation. 377 m (1,237 ft) ... Horní Lhota is a municipality and village in Ostrava-City District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the ...
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.
Vřesina is located about 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Ostrava. It lies in the Nízký Jeseník range. The highest point is the hill Mezihoří at 383 m (1,257 ft) above sea level.
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]
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 Zoo, (Zoologická zahrada Ostrava) is a zoo, located in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. [1] Ostrava Zoo was founded as Kunčičky Zoo in 1951, on an area called the Miners' Park in Ostrava-Kunčičky. But already in 1956 construction of the new zoo in Stromovka park was undertaken, and in 1960 the zoo and animals were transferred to ...
The tower is 85.6 meters high, the tallest for a town hall in the Czech Republic at the time. [3] Under the tower is placed a unique ribbed reinforced concrete slab. The tower clock weighs more than half a ton, and its dial is 3.5m in diameter. In the tower there is an information centre and a viewing terrace at 73 m. [4]
Silesian Ostrava Castle (Czech: Slezskoostravský hrad) is a castle located in Ostrava, in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It was originally built in the 1280s for military purposes, near the confluence of the Lučina and Ostravice rivers, near the Polish border. In 1534, the Gothic castle was rebuilt into a Renaissance ...