Welcome to the official tourism website for Olomouc.
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Information Centre
Horní náměstí (Upper Square)
Town Hall's archway
779 11 Olomouc
Opening hours: daily 9:00am –7:00pm
Tel.: (+420) 585 513 385, 392
E-mail: infocentrum@olomouc.eu
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Olomouc region Card
Olomouc Region Card is a tourist discount card that allows you to visit Olomouc significant savings. Its purchase to make sure you completely discounted or free admission.
City History
Romanesque Olomouc
The annexation of Moravia to the Bohemian Přemyslid state was an important historical point in the history of the city. Břetislav, the son of the Bohemian prince Oldřich, was the first Moravian appanage prince to settle in Olomouc in 1030.
Břetislav and his wife Jitka lived in Olomouc and their first son Spytihněv was born here as well. However, the first historical mention of the “Olomouc Castle” was recorded in the Cosmas Chronicle only in 1055. After this date, Olomouc became the centre of one of the three newly established Moravian appanage domains - Olomouc, Brno and Znojmo.
The origins of the Diocese of Olomouc
The Moravian diocese was founded in the early medieval Olomouc in 1063. The first independent monastery in Moravia followed in 1078. The monk Jan from Prague – Břevnov was the first bishop of Olomouc and the Prague Benedictines became the first inhabitants of the newly-founded monastery.
Jindřich Zdík, politician, diplomat and cultural figure, reputedly the son of the chronicler Cosmas and his wife Božetěcha, became the Olomouc Bishop in 1126. A new Bishop’s residence, completed in 1141, was built by artisans brought by Zdík from Palestine. Its preserved rich decoration has no parallel in the Czech Lands. In 1130, Prince Wenceslas entrusted Zdík with construction of the St.Wenceslas Cathedral, initiated prior to 1107 by Wenceslas father Svatopluk. Zdík relocated the episcopal see from the Church of St. Peter to the new Cathedral in 1141 and established here a cathedral chapter.
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