The royal town of Olomouc was founded along the Morava River in the first third of the 13th century; however, the history of its settlement is much older. The former Premyslides castle and the establishment of the Moravian Episcopate were mentioned for the first time in the middle of the 11th century.

Some of the town palaces and merchants' houses were built in the Renaissance style. The town was re-built into the baroque style after the thirty years' war.

A large baroque fortress was replaced with an area of landscaping valuable parks and orchards in the 19th century. Today, Olomouc is famous among others, for the traditional exhibitions of floriculture and horticulture known as Flora, and for the local food speciality known as Olomoucke syrecky (Olomoucke cheese cake).²