Historical and Present Town

The town Kroměříž arose and developed in a place with advantages geographical situation and very agreeable natural conditions on the flat bank area of the river Morava flow. Eastwards it opened to the fruitful central Morava region, the other hilly surroundings created a natural border of the original settlements of people. The valley cuts in the hills limited the creation of natural ways on which market ways and paths were created in early historical times. Their contribution for Kroměříž and its environment was only an economical one. They were ways of meeting, mutual enriching and mixture of cultural streams and influences. The centre of Moravia not only in the geographical sense, is situated right here.

Kroměříž grew in a fruitful agricultural landscape. An unknown author of the ethnical map of the Haná Region from the break of 18th and 19th century descripted Kroměříž near the southern border of the area, called "Terra Promissa vulgo Sacra Hana". But the history of Kroměříž passed other ways than it was in many similar Bohemian and Moravian towns. The town, absorbing progress and contributing to it by own effort, has become a centre of spiritual culture and arts. Its place in culture and way of life has a similar character as its situation in the countryside, it is a centre opened to all sides.