The historic centre of Příbor is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation.

Příbor consists of three municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):[2] Although the name of the town literally means 'cutlery' in modern Czech, it is just a coincidence.

It is not certain whether the Czech name Příbor originated earlier and the German name Freiberg was derived by transcription, or vice versa.

From 1875 to 1938, the Czech Teacher Institute operated here, from which a number of significant pedagogues and experts in education and culture came.

[6] The D48 motorway (part of the European route E462) from Nový Jičín to the Czech-Polish border passes through the town.

The historic centre is formed by a regular town square lined with burgher houses, which are mainly Renaissance with Baroque alterations.

The most important is the Romanesque-Gothic parish Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary with later Renaissance and Baroque adaptations.