Ostrava

Visitors to the Moravian-Silesian regional capital will find a long industrial and coal-mining heritage and one of the most prominent preserved monuments is the mine headframe Těžní věž dolu Jindřich not far from the city centre. 

In keeping with this identity is the city's 20th century architecture, including Art Nouveau and Communist-era buildings such as the towered Socialist-style Nová radnice Ostrava. Slightly earlier in date is the Historicist Radnice Slezské Ostravy, a house converted into a city hall. 

The impressive Neorenaissance Katedrála Božského Spasitele shows the style of the 19th century. 

Ostrava's castle, known as Slezskoostravský hrad, is old however, with a past reaching back to the 13th century as a stronghold of the dukes of Těšín. In its Renaissance form it withstood the Thirty Years War.