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

Ivančice ceased to be a royal town in 1486, when it was acquired by the Pernštejn family and later by the Lords of Lipá.

The town prospered until the Thirty Years' War, when it was looted by the troops of Gabriel Bethlen and later occupied by the Swedish army.

Later it was moved inside the town walls but administered as an independent municipality, with its own Jewish mayor.

The Counter Reformation and the Thirty Years' War reduced the number of Protestants living in Ivančice, and at the same time, the Jewish community grew thanks to the arrival of refugees from Bohemia.

This growth resulted in an edict issued in 1650 forbidding any Jews to inhabit Moravia who had not resided there before 1618.

After the proclamation of an independent Czechoslovakia and the end of the World War I, it was merged with the Christian rest of the town, however, the community continued its activities.

[10] The main landmark of the central town square is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

[3] The Renaissance building of the Old Town Hall from 1544 houses a museum with Monument of Alphonse Mucha, who was born right here.

[3] The Jewish Quarter has an area of 2.75 hectares (7 acres) and consisted of 83 houses, out of which 45 are preserved to this day.