The town of horní Cerekev can not boast a large number of residents: it has a population of slightly less than 2 thousand people. However, this city is quite interesting from a tourist point of view and adopts every year, hundreds of people willing to be in this Czech middle ages.

For the first time the city is mentioned in the documents dated to 1361, but local historians believe that horní Cecere was founded long before that time. They say that at its origins the standing Licek, so the city was originally called Liscovitz. With this Litecom there is one urban legend. They say that he was a man of incredible strength and agility, which barehanded catching wild animals. One day he caught a wild boar, whose head has decided to place on the city's coat of arms. However, much later a dispute arose: some claimed that the head looks like the head of a bear. To allow such a discussion could only in 1998, when it was officially decided that it's still a boar's head.

The current name of the town translates as "Mountain Church". City rights horní Cerekev received in the XIV century, then he began to expand.

Fortified castle on the banks of a beautiful lake, rebuilt in the XVI century in Renaissance style, belongs to a private person and is not available for inspection. But you can visit the Church of the Annunciation of the virgin Mary, which was the main temple of the city from the XIV century. as well as the Jewish cemetery, which is considered the main attraction of horní Cerekev and is mentioned in all the guidebooks. You can see about 130 well-preserved funerary sculptures that date back to the XVIII-XX centuries.