Žatec
Žatec ranks 12,653rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mission Hills, Los Angeles, Songkhla province, and Chomutov. Memorable people born in Žatec include Jan Svěrák. Žatec has been the birth place of many film directors. Žatec is located in Czechia.
Žatec is a town in Louny District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 19,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Ohře river. Žatec is famous for an over-700-year-long tradition of growing Saaz noble hops used by several breweries. Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation and partly also as an urban monument zone. Read more on Wikipedia
In 1965, Žatec was the birth place of 1 globally memorable people, including Jan Svěrák.
People Born in Žatec
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Most individuals born in present day Žatec were film directors (1), while most who died were .
