The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.

Fryšták consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):[2] The name is a Czech transliteration of the German frei stadt (i.e. 'free town').

Fryšták lies on the border between ethnographic regions of Moravian Wallachia and Haná.

By the latter 20th century a contemporary wave of building with construction of many new houses included the installation of modern infrastructure such as natural gas lines and telephone networks.

The original part of the church is from the 16th century, in 1820 the building was extended and the bell tower was replaced by a new one.