Moravská Třebová has won the title of Historic City of the Year 2024, a reward for using money from the Ministry of Culture’s programme for the restoration of monuments.

The award, which comes with a one-million-crown cheque, honors those towns and cities that have excelled in preserving and renewing their cultural and architectural heritage.

The “Historic Town of the Year” competition is organized annually by the Association of Historic Settlements in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia along with the Ministry of Regional Development.

Moravska Trebova, in the Svitavy district, is a town of almost 10,000 inhabitants.

The town has made its Renaissance town hall accessible and created a new information system. At the same time, it acquired the Renaissance church from the local parish, which it is trying to repair and make accessible.

The Ministry for Regional Development’s award, which carries a prize of CZK 100,000, went to Nove Mesto nad Metuji in the Hradec Kralove Region and Prague 1 for its outstanding implementation of the programme for the rehabilitation of heritage reserves.

A special award was given to Horni Slavkov in the Karlovy Vary Region for the restoration of St. George’s Church, and the town of Lipnik nad Becvou in the Olomouc Region for the restoration of its town hall, fortifications, and castle.

According to Jiri Vajcner, Director of the Ministry’s Department of Heritage Protection, the state programmes for the rehabilitation of reserves and zones should have an annual fund of CZK 700 million.

Above that, the government managed to allocate CZK 1.4 billion for the restoration of the fortress towns of Terezin and Josefov. “I am convinced that the time of less abundance is over,” Vajcner said yesterday. He said the Culture Ministry had also begun to put emphasis on plans to protect heritage reserves and zones.

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