"The Green Gate is a characteristic and significant landmark of the city of Pardubice. It is perceived as one whole, but in reality it is two buildings in a row – a Renaissance gateway and its own gate with a tower 59 m high. This unit is the only significant but very valuable remnant of the city’s fortifications from the beginning of the 16th century. It is one of the entrances to the city monument reserve, the beginning and end of the marked sightseeing route of the reserve, the so-called Viléma z Pernštejn Trail. The battlements and the tower were rebuilt to their present form after the town fire in 1538 by Jan of Pernštejn. The tower is accessible and offers visitors a view of the city and the distant surroundings.
After the fire of 1538, Jan of Pernštejn carried out an extensive Renaissance reconstruction of the entire town. Its builder, Jiřík Olomoucky, also modified the entrance gate. He raised them by one floor and decorated them with a Renaissance gable with a high attic with moldings and arches on top. Two small rooms were set up on the first floor, where master Jiřík himself lived for a while. At the same time, the tower was also built to its current height and rough shape. When viewed from Zelenobranská street, it is visible where the superstructure from this period begins. The tower with a golden poppy and a ten-pointed star on the top was raised to a height of 59 m. It is especially decorated with an exceptionally beautiful late Gothic roof consisting of three levels of canopies, prisms with eight needle turrets and a high elongated central spire. It has been called the "Green Gate" since 1547, until then it was known as the Prague Gate.
Pardubice (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpardubɪtsɛ]; German: Pardubitz) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 92,000 inhabitants. It is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the Elbe River. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument reservation.
Pardubice is known as the centre of industry, which represents an oil refinery or an electronic equipment plant. The city is well known for its sport events, which include the Velká pardubická steeplechase in horse racing, the Golden Helmet of Pardubice in motorcycle racing, and the Czech Open international chess and games festival.
The name Pardubice is derived from the personal Polish name Porydęb. It was the name of the leader of the monks who came here from Poland. For the first time the name was recorded in the form of Pordobice.
Pardubice is located about 90 kilometres (56 mi) east of Prague. The city lies at the confluence of the Elbe and Chrudimka rivers. There are several fishponds, artificial lakes and oxbow lakes of the Elbe in the municipal territory.
Pardubice is located in the East Elbe Table, in the eastern part of the Polabí lowland. The highest point is the hill Stropinský vrch at 258 m (846 ft) above sea level, located on the southeastern municipal border.
The first written mention of Pardubice is from 1295, when Pope Boniface VIII took over the protection of the local Church of Saint Bartholomew with the order of Canons Regular of the Penitence of the Blessed Martyrs. In the first half of the 14th century, the settlement was acquired by a noble family, later known as Lords of Pardubice. In 1340, when Pardubice was inherited by Arnošt of Pardubice, it was first referred to as a city.
Bohemia (Latin Bohemia, German Böhmen, Polish Czechy) is a region in the west of the Czech Republic. Previously, as a kingdom, they were the center of the Czech Crown. The root of the word Czech probably corresponds to the meaning of man. The Latin equivalent of Bohemia, originally Boiohaemum (literally "land of Battles"), which over time also influenced the names in other languages, is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Boios, who lived in this area from the 4th to the 1st century BC Bohemia on it borders Germany in the west, Austria in the south, Moravia in the east and Poland in the north. Geographically, they are bounded from the north, west and south by a chain of mountains, the highest of which are the Krkonoše Mountains, in which the highest mountain of Bohemia, Sněžka, is also located. The most important rivers are the Elbe and the Vltava, with the fertile Polabean Plain extending around the Elbe. The capital and largest city of Bohemia is Prague, other important cities include, for example, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, Kladno, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice and České Budějovice, Jihlava also lies partly on the historical territory of Bohemia." – info from Wikipedia.
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