MORAVIA-SILESIA REGION The Region’s border characteristics provide opportunities for efficient cooperation in the manufacturing sector, infrastructural development, cultural and educational activities, and especially in the area of tourism. For this purpose, four Euroregions are currently active in the Region – Praděd, Beskydy, Silesia, and Cieszyn Silesia.
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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra is based in Ostrava. The Region is characterised by its conditions for industrial tourism (Tatra Technical Museum in Kopřivnice, Museum of Wagon-Making in Studénka, Museum of Mining in Ostrava-Petřkovice, Dolní Vítkovice, National Cultural Heritage Site of Michal Coal Mine). The Region’s spa industry is based on utilising the curative effects of the iodine-bromine water in the Darkov Spa and Rehabilitation Centre. A new spa sanatorium with architecturally interesting buildings has been operating in Klimkovice since the beginning of the 1990s. Watersport fans enjoy boating down the Moravice and Odra Rivers, and those who prefer recreation on the water’s edge visit the Žermanice and Těrlicko dams, or, less frequently, the dam in Slezská Harta. There are golf courses of various levels of difficulty in the Region, starting with courses featuring short holes, all the way to courses where championship tournaments are played. Whatever the course, you will always be playing in beautiful natural surroundings with the magical backdrops of the Beskydy Mountains or
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The Region has an area of 5 427 sq. km and consists of six former districts (from the West: Bruntál, Opava, Nový Jičín, Ostrava-City, Karviná, and Frýdek-Místek). The Moravia-Silesia Region is the third most populous of the Czech Republic´s 14 regions. In addition, nearly 60 % of its inhabitants live in towns with a population of more than 20 000, which is quite exceptional in comparison with all the other regions. This concentration may be one of the necessities of its survival – in spite of great shifts in the labour market, more than one-third of the employed people work in industrial enterprises, many of which have closed down, but many others have come into being. The regional city of Ostrava is considered as the Region’s commercial and cultural centre. It has large shopping and exhibition centres, luxury hotels, pleasant cafés, and theatres. The tourist trade also benefits from the extensive network of cycling tracks through the interesting surroundings. The Region’s traditional cultural centres are Ostrava, Opava, and the Těšín District, with the important Polish minority in Český Těšín. The internationally renowned
