• Tourist information about the Beskydy Region.
  • Frýdek Místek map (403 kB).
  • History of the brewing industry in Frýdek and Místek (in Czech, by Mgr. Jaromír Polášek).
  • Legends from Frýdek Místek (in Czech, by Mgr. Jaromír Polášek).

    • Town

    Frýdek and Místek, developed independently since 1265 at both sides of the frontier river Ostravice, have been joined in 1943 as one town. This is a reason I prefer writing Frýdek Místek instead of Frýdek-Místek. It is a natural gate to the Beskydy mountains and the cross road of travelling and touristic routes. It is an important industrial centre of the North-Moravian Region.

    There are numerous historical buildings here, witnessing complex historical development of Frýdek and Místek. The most noted dominant of the town is the castle in Frýdek. Today it is housing the Ethnographical Institute and the district museum. At the town square we can see the fountain and the cast iron statue of St. Florian. The old houses beneath the castle form a picturesque western part of the old square. The old buildings in Hluboká Street represented a unique architectonic collection, unfortunately they did not survive.

    Very interesting, as to its historical point of view, is also an old baroque roadside inn Na Veselé, the memorial tablet of which commemorates the stay of the Russian commanders Suvorov and Kutuzov in the years 1800 and 1805. A visitor will be captivated by baroque burgess buildings with arcades in the busy Mistek square and as well as the church of St. John and Paul or the statue "Funeral in Carpathian Mountains" by sculptor Štursa.

    Besides the massive castle tower, the panorama of the town is shaped also by the local churches towers. Their interior decorations, not unfrequently of high artistic value, are property of the town cultural fund. In addition to historically the oldest buildings of St Joshua's, John Baptist's, and James' Churches, there can be seen also several younger baroque buildings here.

    Such famous sculptors, as for example, Jan Štursa, Ladislav Šaloun, František Uprka, and Jindøich Wielgus contributed their works on an artistic decoration of the town.

    Photos from Frýdek Místek

  • The old buildings and the Castle at the Frýdek square before reconstruction (67 kB)
  • The Castle Square during reconstruction (April 1996) (93 kB)
  • Another view of the Castle Square during reconstruction (April 1996) (107 kB)
  • Castle Square after reconstruction (April 1997) (97 kB)
  • Another view of the Castle Square after reconstruction (April 1997) (102 kB)
  • Rear side of Frýdek Castle (92 kB)
  • The same but April 1996 view of Frýdek Castle (168 kB)
  • Místek beyond the river Ostravice (its bed had to be moved to the west about one hundred meters) (109 kB)
  • The Místek highway and the view of Frýdek (75 kB)
  • Hluboká Street before reconstruction (70 kB)
  • House No 64 in Hluboká Street, where I spent the first years, now reconstructed as a tea room Dobrá èajovna. (75 kB)
  • Sport Hall (photographed by Henk Hommes) (184 kB)
  • Sport Hall - another view with the Memorial of Silesian people (photographed by Henk Hommes) (179 kB)

    • Last modified 22 June 2000