The Town Where I Live and Study

Pardubice is in the centre of the eastern Bohemia, about 100 km east of Prague. In 1990, this town celebrated its 650th foundation anniversary. The first mention about Pardubice dates back to the St. Bartholomew Church. Pardubice got the status of town in 1340. A famous person in that town was Arnošt of Pardubice, the first Czech archbishop. In 1491, Pardubice was bought by Vilém of Pernštejn. The Pernštejn built many lakes and a large castle. Beautiful Pernštejn square still reminds us of that time. Another well-known place in the centre of Pardubice is the Green Tower. Pardubice is called „a city of ginger bread“. The ice hockey team of Pardubice often plays in the national league. Pardubice is the city of the steeplechase „Velká Pardubická“ and national tennis cup of juniors.

The Golden Helmet is a speed way competition in a special stadium in Pardubice – Svítkov. Well known are also our city theatre, music hall and several cinemas in the centre of the town. There are also many chemical factories in our town, e. g. Semtín, Paramo, many research institutes and University of Pardubice I can say that Pardubice is a nice, exciting, big town but it is also noisy and polluted.

I think that the life in a village is nice and less noisy but a town gives more possibilities to young people to find a better job, to study, to visit theatres performances, various concerts and films

I live in a block of flats in a part of Pardubice called Dubina. It isn’t far from the centre of the town. It takes me about 10 minutes to get there.