This city in Moravia was transformed by one man - Thomas Bata - in the early twentieth century.
It was an important centre for shoe production, and once the hub of the global Bata corporation.
The celebrated functionalist architecture sits amongst pockets of greenery, so everywhere you go there are trees, bushes and areas of grass.
This is the city where the Clinic for Reproductive Medicine has its main headquarters, way up on a hill overlooking the city below.