The Masaryk Tower of Independence situated on the peak of Hořice ridge (407 m above sea level) is a remarkable building with abundant sculpture decoration. It is a monument which commemorates the victims of the two world wars and it also serves as a public lookout tower. The tower was built in 1925 – 1938 designed by architect František Blažek and built by Jindřich Malina, the sculptures were designed by Jan Vávra and Karel Lenhart, the students of Otakar Španiel. The monumental reliefs in the eastern and western wing present motives of Czechoslovak and international resistance movement. The tower is 25 meters high. The construction of the originally planned 40 meters building was prevented by World War II. The foundation stone was laid by the president T.G.Masaryk in 1926 during his visit to Hořice. From the gallery of the tower you can admire beautiful scenery of the Krkonoše Mountains in the north and the fertile plain Polabí. Since 2000 the space in front of the tower has been occupied by the statue of Legions Abroad by František Duchač Vyskočil. The tower is open to public from May to September daily except for Mondays.
Not far from the tower there is an Empire style chapel of Our Lady, established by the renowned Hořice native Josef Ladislav Jandera (1776 – 1857), a professor of mathematics at the Prague University, as acknowledgement of the fact that Cholera epidemics was averted from the town.