Holešov
Holešov town is located 15 kilometers north from Zlín at Hostýn Mountains. Holešov was first mentioned in 1141. The most important building is the Baroque castle Holešov built after 1650, a unique French style chateau park with a pond in the shape of a trident and castle observatory.
There is a unique Jewish monuments Šachova Holešov synagogue, a Jewish cemetery Holešov. Due to the troubled history during the German occupation during the Second World War it is a very well-preserved objects. In the town there was another synagogue, but it was burned down in 1940 and the Jewish population perished in concentration camps.
There is also a Trinitarian monastery, Black Chapel, St. Anne’s Church. A nearby village is Rymice with its open-air museum of folk architecture, Windmill.
