Dačice

Dačice is a town in Jindřichův Hradec District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, with about 7,100 inhabitants. Although it belongs administratively to South Bohemia, it lies in the historical land of Moravia, on the Moravian Thaya River in the Křižanov Highlands, where the nearby hill Plec reaches 608 metres. The first written mention is from 1183, and it was promoted to a town in 1377. The town is known as the home of the sugar cube, invented here in 1841 by Jakob Christof Rad, and a permanent exhibition in the Municipal Museum and Art Gallery tells the story. Its preserved historic centre is an urban monument zone with a Renaissance town hall, two castles and a Baroque monastery.