The royal city of Nymburk can be found in the Central Bohemian Region on the banks of the river Elbe, about 50 kilometers east of the capital city of Prague. The city was founded in the second half of the 13th century by Přemysl Otakar II. and was a strategic city protecting Prague. It has undergone a number of changes over the centuries and is currently the economic and cultural center of the Central Elbe region.
The historic city center was declared in 1992
urban monument zone.
Sights, tourism:
- Renaissance town hall
- a prehistoric mound
- Gothic church of St. Jiljí
- Chapel of St. Jan Nepomucký
- medieval fortifications, city walls
- crematorium in purist style
- water reservoir tower
- lock on the Elbe
- local history museum.
The town of Nymburk is also the birthplace of many important personalities, such as the writer František Rachlík, the composer Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský or the Baroque painters of the Kramolín brothers.
The writer Bohumil Hrabal also spent his childhood and youth here, to whom a permanent exhibition is dedicated in the Museum of National History.
The surroundings of the town offer many opportunities for hiking, biking, fishing and undisturbed relaxation.