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The New City Hall (Czech: Nová radnice) is a resperentative building in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It is the most architecturally important and largest town hall complex from the Interwar period in country. It also has a prominent Czech Modernist style clock and observation tower, the tallest from the period. [1]
Six of its districts, Bruntál, Frýdek-Místek, Karviná, Nový Jičín, Opava, and Ostrava, were in 2000 put into the newly established Moravian-Silesian Region. The old North Moravian Region still exists and jurisdiction of some administrative bodies is defined by its borders.
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]
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.
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 ...
A young recently divorced German tourist is hired by a concerned mother to visit her son, who is living a hermit life on an island in the Adriatic Sea, and persuade him to come home.
The Dvůr Králové Manuscript contained 14 poems, out of which 6 were epics, 2 were lyric epics, and 6 were love songs. [11] Záboj and Slavoj , two invented warrior-poets, feature in the epics. The Zelená Hora Manuscript contained two poems, the " Sněmy " ("The Assemblies") and " Libušin soud " ("Lubuše's Verdict").