In the middle of a wide promontory of the Elbe lowland, which is bordered as a vast bay by the Iron Mountains from the northeast and by the Upper Sázava Uplands from the southwest, there is the ancient town of Čáslav. The town was founded sometime around the middle of the 13th century by Přemysl Otakar II.
Today’s Čáslav is a medium-sized town – in 2008 the limit of ten thousand inhabitants was exceeded – which, in addition to a number of monuments, also offers its visitors a museum, gallery, theater, cinema, swimming pool and a number of modern sports facilities. The entire cadastre of the city measures 22 km2, the city itself has an area of 3.5 km2.
Since 2003 , the town of Čáslav has been an authorized municipality of the third degree and as such it is obliged to perform state administration and self-government to the extent belonging to these municipalities. A list of municipalities that fall under the administration of Čáslav can be found in the section Authorized Territory.
However, Čáslav, sometimes also called the gateway to the Iron Mountains, is also a town of majorettes, whose local groups have been winning one medal after another at domestic and foreign competitions for many years, it is the city of the excellent Youth Wind Orchestra. It comes from Čáslav and many excellent athletes associate their sports beginnings with it. For all of them, we can name probably the most famous ones, which are the runner Jarmila Kratochvílová and her no less famous protégé Ludmila Formanová – both world champions in the 800 m run.
