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Zlín (in 1949–1989 Gottwaldov; Czech pronunciation:; German: Zlin) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 74,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of the Zlín Region and it lies on the Dřevnice River. It is known as an industrial centre.
The rigorously built functionalistic city is a unique display of interwar modern urbanism and architecture, not only on the Czech scale.
All information about the city of Zlín, the municipality, the authorities of the city districts of Zlín, culture, business, history, center, transport, sports, etc.
Zlín is home to the Baroque-style Kroměří castle and gardens, which were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1998. It is also a cultural centre, with a resident orchestra and several film studios. The planning and design of its new sections are, in part, the work of Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect.
After the foundation of the Baťa shoe factory in 1896, the town rapidly grew into a major city, and the modernist industrial architecture, together with housing and social facilities, remains a representative of early 20th-century social and industrial architecture.
Zlín - a quiet place for dynamic business. A natural metropolis of southeast Moravia, a statutory city, university seat and center of the Zlín Region - all this is today's Zlín. The city became world famous at the beginning of the 20th century thanks to Bata shoe factories, which later carried the name Svit.
The regional capital of Zlín is situated in the Dřevnice Stream valley, in the moderate climatic zone of southeast Moravia on the border of the local regions of Moravian Wallachia, Haná and Moravian Slovakia.
