Kroměříž

Kroměříž is a town in the Zlín Region of Czechia, about 20 kilometres northwest of Zlín, with roughly 28,000 inhabitants. It stands on both banks of the Morava River, where the Haná River joins it on the northern edge of the town. Its early history is that of a market village at a ford on the Amber and Salt trade roads, owned by the bishops of Olomouc, who promoted it to a town in 1290 and built the walls, the market square and the Church of Saint Maurice. Damaged in the Thirty Years War, it was rebuilt in the Baroque style under Bishop Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn. The Baroque castle and its gardens were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998, and the Constitutive Imperial Congress met in the town in 1848.