Žamberk

Museums and Historic Sites

• Municipal Museum – Československé armády 472
• House of Prokop Diviš – Helvíkovice 326
• Litice – ancient castle
• Kunvald – place where Bohemian Brethren church was founded in 1457

  Notable people associated with Žamberk

• Prokop Diviš – inventor, catholic priest
• Theodor Brorsen – Danish astronomer and botanist
• Eduard Albert – Austrian surgeon, born and died in Žamberk, associated with Albert's disease.
• August Seydler – astronomer, theoretical physicist, and professor at Charles University in Prague
• Edmund Kirsch – businessman
• Oldřich Marek – entomologist and teacher
• Petr Eben – composer

  Publications

• E. Albert-Chotovský: Paměti města Žamberka

  Twin towns – sister cities

• Fresagrandinaria, Italy
• Nowa Sól, Poland
• Püttlingen, Germany
• Rice Lake, United States
• Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, France
• Senftenberg, Germany
• Senftenberg, Austria
• Veszprém, Hungary

  Exchange program

• Gymnasium Žamberk – Minkema College Woerden