Dolní Bečva is íBeča municipality and village in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,000 inhabitants.

Geography

Dolní Bečva is located about northeast of Vsetín and south of Ostrava. It lies on the border between the Moravian-Silesian Beskids mountain range and the Rožnov Furrow valley. The highest point is the Radhošť mountain at above sea level, whose peak lies on the municipal border. The municipality is situated on the right bank of the Rožnovská Bečva River.

Dolní Bečva

History

The first written mention of Dolní Bečva is from 1597.

Dolní Bečva

Sights

In the centre of Dolní Bečva is the Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, built in the Neo-Romanesque style in 1906.

Dolní Bečva

On the Radhošť mountain there are located the Chapel of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and the Radegast sculpture by Albin Polasek (the original from 1929 was replaced with a copy in 1998).

Twin towns – sister cities

Dolní Bečva is twinned with: Kamenec pod Vtáčnikom, Slovakia

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Villages in Vsetín District