Lešná is a village in the Vsetín District

Vsetín District

Vsetín District is one of four districts within Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Vsetín.-Complete list of municipalities:Branky - Bystřička - Choryně - Dolní Bečva -...

, northwest of Valašské Meziříčí

Valašské Mezirící

Valašské Meziříčí is a town in the Zlín Region, the Czech Republic. The town has 27,960 inhabitants.Vsetínská Bečva and Rožnovská Bečva rivers join in the town to form the Bečva River.-Main sights:* The Kinský Chateau...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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History

The first written report of the village can be found in the Moravian municipal records from 1355.

Buildings in Lešná

The rich history of the village includes the castle built in the first half of the 18th century in the place of the medieval fort. In the mansion premises there is an English park which has an extent of 7.26 hectare

Hectare

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s. In the park there are rare plants and evergreen woody species. The Archangel Michael Church is the oldest building in the village and was built in the baroque

Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...

style in 1635.