At the southeastern foot of the Ore Mountains, just a few kilometres from the spa town of Teplice, you will find the town of Krupka with a rich mining past. It has almost 13,000 inhabitants and consists of eleven formerly independent municipalities: Krupka, Bohosudov, Vrchoslav, Maršov, Unčín, Soběchleby, Nové Modlany and the mountain town of Fojtovice,
Habartice, Mohelnice and Horní Krupka.
The origin and fame of the original mining town are linked to the extraction of tin ore and its further processing. The slopes of the mountains still hide numerous mine workings and adits. Since 2019, the mining landscape of Krupka has even been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Erzgebirge / Erzgebirge Mining Region.
Krupka is a city of monuments, with 35 cultural monuments and one national cultural monument, the monumental Baroque Basilica of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows.