Island, city of baroque monuments.

The Slavic settlement is first mentioned in 1207. It stood on the right bank of the Bystřice river and was protected only by ramparts. Today there is a cemetery in these places with the originally Romanesque church of St. Jacob the Elder. The elevation of the settlement to a town occurred in 1331. It was built on a new site and is today the historical core of the town. In 1434, the island was mortgaged to Kašpar Šlik. At this time, mining was done here…