There are many opportunities in the Czech Republic to look at the production: car manufacturing plant-please, Breweries-easy, factory for processing precious stones and many others.

One of the symbols of working Ostrava is the industrial area of Vitkovice. Factory buildings created the appearance of this city since the beginning of the XIX century. Now on the territory of the former metallurgical combine, nothing rattles, nothing smokes and nothing is not transported to workshops and warehouses. But there is still a possibility to walk in safety through the vast territory of the plant, which not so long ago was synonymous with Ostrava. Today it is one of the main industrial and tourist sites on the map of the Czech Republic.

The Vitkovice district, which combines the Glubokaya mine, the coking plant and the blast furnaces of the metallurgical combine, is a unique industrial monument of the entire Moravian-Silesian region.

In 2008, the complex became the first Czech object included in the list of European cultural heritage. The value and uniqueness of Vitkovice lay in the technological continuity of coal mining, its coking and production of pig iron in blast furnaces, as well as in the relatively long non-stop operation of the plant: from the 1920s until almost the end of the XX century.

The metallurgical plant was founded in 1828 by Archduke Rudolf, Archbishop of Olomouc. The plant was designed for the processing of iron obtained in blast furnaces in Čeladná and Frýdlant. In 1857, the Hlubina mine was opened in the vicinity of the metallurgical plant and became a source of fuel for local blast furnaces. After that, all technological processes have been united in one industrial complex. The connection between the individual parts of the production was provided by belt conveyors, loading equipment and transport bridges.

Coal mining at the mine was discontinued in 1991, and the furnaces were completed in 1998. The entire area has become a technical monument. In the same year, on the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the plant's Foundation, a bust of the founder, Archduke Rudolf Jahn, was installed in front of the administrative building.

In July 2019, a new attraction has appeared in the protected industrial zone of the lower Vitkovice region. Visitors can also see the old coking plant now.

Today, the tour of the Depth mine and blast furnace No. 1 attracts connoisseurs of impressions in the style of "industrial" not only from all over the Czech Republic but also from many other countries of the world. The standard tour route around the plant is open every day, and the walk takes a bit more than 1.5 hours.