Statutární město Zlín

With 75,000 inhabitants, the city of Zlín is the industrial and business center of the Central Moravian region.

The history of the city goes back to the Middle Ages (the first written mention of it dates back to 1322) , when Zlín was a craft and guild center for the surrounding Wallachian settlement, which lived mainly on pastoralism. Zlín was the seat of the estate owners and lived through the gradual development of the city government. The industrial revolution brought about a change in this peaceful development.

An important milestone in the history of Zlín was the year 1894, when the shoe company of the Bať family was founded here. Thanks to the exceptional growth and prosperity of the company and the influence of Tomáš Bata , who was also the mayor of the city, Zlín became a modern city center in the interwar period , with an excellent architectural style and pace of life.

The enormous interwar construction activity of T. Bata and his team of renowned architects (J. Kotěra, FL Gahura, M. Lorenc, V. Karfík) transformed a town of 5,000 people into an agglomeration of unique functionalist architecture with 43,500 inhabitants.

The city's cultural attractions include the Zlín film studios , made famous in the 1960s by animated and stunt films by Karel Zeman and Hermína Týrlová .

Baťa's entrepreneurial tradition and suitable geographical location are two of several factors that influenced the fact that after the change of the political regime in 1989 there was a rapid growth of entrepreneurial and commercial activities in Zlín , which today far exceed the national average.

Following the tradition established by Tomáš Baťa at the Zlín town hall during his tenure as mayor, the Zlín municipality supports business activities and invites investors to participate in joint projects.