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My home town

My home town. Jilemnice. Basic informations. Jilemnice is situated in the North-east of Czech republic in a mountainous area of west foothills of Giant Mountains(is the gate to the Western Giant Mountains) the town square is located 464 metres above the sea level Has 6000 inhabitans.

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My home town

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  1. My home town Jilemnice

  2. Basic informations • Jilemnice is situated in the North-east of Czech republic • in a mountainous area of west foothills of Giant Mountains(is the gate to the Western Giant Mountains) • the town square is located 464 metres above the sea level • Has 6000 inhabitans

  3. History • established sometimes at the beginning of the 14th century • from 1701 was Jilemnice town of Harrach dynasty • Develop of textil industry • Many fires the biggest in 1788, 1803, 1838 • In 1788 buried 114 houses and others had to be destroyed

  4. "the cradle of Czech skiing". • 1892 count Harrach brought first ski • 1894 first independent ski club in the CR"the Czech Krkonose Club Ski„ • Around the forest Hrabenka we can find 20kilometres of ski lanes • Maps: http://www.sport-jilemnice.cz/bezecke-trasy/mapy-bezeckych-tras/

  5. Celebrities in the Jilemnice • Frantisek Posepny-geologist, founder of world layer geology(ložisková geologie) • Josef Hanus -chemist -Hanus's medal is to this day awarded • Jaroslav Havlicek-writer, epic poets between the wars (The Invisible; Paraffin Lamps; Little Son; Barbora Hlavsova). • Jan Weiss-writer,one of the founders of the Czech sci-fi literature (The House with Thousand Storeys; Sleeper in Zodiac). • Zdenko Feyfar-Czech artistic photograph.

  6. Actions in the Jilemnice • May fair • Christmas fair • Krakonoš´s summer evenings • Fair-with roller coasters, etc.

  7. Culture and Sport • Social house Jilm-theaters, discusions, concerts,carnevasl, etc. • Kino 70 • City library • Tennis courts, footbal pitch, sokol, bowling,swimming pool, sauna, sports hall, sokolovna,cyklo and ski lines, sometimes ice rink

  8. Town hall • classical style • expanded in 1851. • The clocks strike every quarter of an hour • each day we can hear 1 020 strikes. • You can recognize what time is it • The most actives clock in the middle Europe

  9. Courious street

  10. Saint Vavrinec´s church • Baroque style

  11. Museum

  12. sources • www.jilemnice.cz • www.sport-jilemnice.cz • www.jilemnicko.cz

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