 Close to this village is National nature reserve Řežabinec a Řežabinecké tůně.In one chapter of the novel "The Good Soldier Švejk" the author describes how Švejk in Putim meets up with a local gendarmerie officer, who is constantly drunk and who mistakes Švejk for a Russian spy.The first statue of Švejk in the Czech Republic was unveiled in Putim in August 2014.