The monuments of the Royal Town Kolin remind of its rich past. Regular ground plan of streets and the main square in Kolin are fine examples of highly advanced medieval urbanism of the 13th century. The Cathedral of St. Bartholomew is an exceptional masterpiece of Late Gothic architecture.
This is an industrial area origination from the 1st half of the 19th century. In the early 1990s, the first important technical objects and equipment in the Vítkovice Ironworks [Vítkovické železárny], in the lower part of Vítkovice, were declared pieces of the Czech Cultural Heritage.