Kolín is a city in Central Bohemia. It has about 33,000 inhabitants in 2023. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation.
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Stará Kouřim
Lech stone
Kouřim museum of folk architecture
Synagoga v Kolíně
A synagogue from 1696. It is the second oldest and most valuable synagogue in Bohemia.
Starý židovský hřbitov v Kolíně
One of the oldest and largest Jewish cemeteries in Bohemia. It was established in 1418 and has more than 2,600 tombstones.
It is a junction of five railway lines from Prague, Olomouc, Ledeček, Havlíčkov Brod, and Velký Osek.
City bus service in 2023 had 11 lines and was provided by the Okresní autobusová doprava Kolín company.
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