It lies in the Drahany Highlands, on the border of the Moravian Karst Protected Landscape Area.

Production expanded, the number of employees increased, and a new district with family houses was established in the town in the 1930s and again in the 1950s.

[2] From 1952, the local company was named Adamovské strojírny ("Adamov Engineering Works") or ADAST.

It contains a valuable late Gothic altarpiece called the Zwettl Altar (Světelský oltář).

The wooden altar illustrates the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and comprises 59 carved figures.