Moravská Třebová is a town located in the Pardubice Region, in the Svitavy District, in northwestern Moravia. It has a population of 9,715 inhabitants. The town was founded in 1257 by Boreš of Rýzmburk as a typical colonization town with a regular square layout.
Many buildings and works of art still recall the economic prosperity and high cultural level of the town during the rule of the Lords of Boskovice and Ladislav Velen of Žerotín, when Moravská Třebová became a center of humanist education and earned the nickname "the Moravian Athens."