Vizovice

Vizovice lies on the Lutoninka stream in the hills of eastern Moravia. It is first mentioned in 1261, when it belonged to the newly founded Smilheim monastery. The monastery and village were damaged during the Hussite Wars, and the Cistercian house was abolished in 1485.

In 1567 Zdeněk Kavka of Říčany bought the estate and built a Renaissance residence on the former monastery site. Emperor Maximilian II granted Vizovice town status in 1570, encouraging the development of crafts. A distillery is recorded in 1585, while the Baroque castle was built between 1749 and 1770 under Count Hermann Hannibal of Blümegen.