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Holice is situated at an altitude of 244 m in the Pardubice district of eastern Bohemia. Holice (German: Holitz) was first mentioned in 1336 and had the status of a town at least since 1507.

The picture on glass no.1624 [left] shows the market square in the centre of Holice. Today the square is named for Tomáš G. Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia.

The monument for Dr. Emil Holub [left] was erected in 1949. Emil Holub (1847–1902) was born in Holice and became a physician. He became well-known for his expeditions to Africa (1872–1879 and 1883–1887) which took him to the Lozi empire and towards the Tswana groups in present-day Botswana. Holub donated his extensive ethnographic collections containing tens of thousands of items to numerous museums and schools. He was made a honorary freeman of Holice in 1880. The Dr. Emil Holub African Museum was opened in 1964.