Zářecká Lhota is a municipality and village in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Etymology Lhota is a common Czech toponym. The initial name of the village was Kunšova Lhota (Kunš's Lhota), then it was called Lhota nad Choceňkem. From the 16th century, the name Zářecká Lhota (derived from the Czech words , meaning 'behind the river') is used.
Geography Zářecká Lhota is located about west of Ústí nad Orlicí and east of Pardubice. It lies mostly in the Orlice Table. A small part of the municipality in the east extends into the Svitavy Uplands and includes the highest point of Zářecká Lhota at above sea level. The municipality is situated on the left bank of the Tichá Orlice River.
History The first written mention of Zářecká Lhota is from 1397.
Demographics
Transport The main railway line Prague–Brno crosses the municipality, but there is no train station. The municipality is served by the station in neighbouring Choceň.
Sights The only protected cultural monument in the municipality is a locality on a promontory above the Tichá Orlice River, where a Slavic gord (today called Hradníky) stood in the 8th century. There are also remains of an unnamed fortress from the 14th–15th centuries. Today this area is an archaeological site.
In the centre of Zářecká Lhota is a chapel dating from 1862.
Paleontology In 1880, the first and still the only known Czech pterosaur fossil (now known as Cretornis hlavaci) was found in a nearby quarry.
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