Hoštice

This village about 17 km south-west of Kroměříž, in the hills towards the Chřiby, is first mentioned in 1141 in a charter of Bishop Jindřich Zdík of Olomouc. On the site of a medieval fortified manor stands a Baroque chateau from the end of the 17th century, which is private and not normally open. The parish Church of St Giles was built by the same noble family that owned the chateau.

From the chateau, Y-shaped avenues of horse-chestnut trees, listed as memorable trees, spread out into the countryside. One of them leads to the former Svárov farmstead. The Austrian writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach stayed at the chateau, and a monument to her stands in the park.