Vysoké Mýto is a town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. Vysoké Mýto is a centre of tourism, due to its architectural monuments and the nature that surrounds it. The town square is one of the largest examples of its type in Bohemia.
History
Vysoké Mýto was founded in 1260 by the king Ottokar II of Bohemia. It is situated near its original location called Vraclav.
Until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), head of the Hohenmauth District, one of the 94 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Bohemia.
Economy
Industrial companies in the town include Iveco’s Iveco Bus factory (previously Karosa), brand names Irisbus Crossway, Irisbus Arway and Iveco Urbanway.
Sports
The town’s football club is SK Vysoké Mýto.
Notable people
- Bedřich Bridel (1619–1680), writer, poet and missionary
- Dismas Hataš (1724–1777), violinist and composer
- Alois Vojtěch Šembera (1807–1882), linguist, historian of literature, writer and journalist
- Josef Jireček (1825–1888), scholar
- Hermenegild Jireček (1827–1909), jurisconsult
- Hermann Škorpil (1858–1923) and Karel Škorpil (1859–1944), fathers of Bulgarian archaeology and Varna museum of archaeology (1888)
