Small guide to the city
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Vegetable Market
Try some vegan ice-cream on a square infused with fruit, vegetable and flower aromas of the market. → Vegetable Market St James Square
Chatting on the sidewalk into the night. → St James Square
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Špilberk Castle
Be (a little bit) afraid. → Špilberk Castle with its casemates ingrained with legends 1
Old Town Hall
Get some perspective. → Viewing gallery from the Old Town Hall tower
at are Brno’s absolute “musts”? Villa Tugendhat
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Be wowed by Functionalism. → Villa Tugendhat World Heritage Site
Brno’s statues
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Ask what time it is. → time machine on Freedom Square
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Marvel! → Cathederal on Petrov Hill with views of the town Brno’s statues
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Discover hidden art. → statue Courage on Moravian Square
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Capuchin Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross
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MG: Governor’s Palace
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MG: Pražák Palace
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Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul
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MG: Museum of Applied Arts
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Church of St Michael
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Brno City Museum
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Orthodox Church of St Wenceslas
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Brno House of Arts (BHA)
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MM: Diechtrichstein Palace
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Jan Amos Comenius Church
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MM: Mendelianum
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MM: Palace of Noble Ladies
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MM: Leoš Janáček Memorial
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Church of St James
Shopping centre
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Jesuit Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church of the St Johns, with Loreta Chapel
Church of St Joseph
Transport
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NTB: Reduta Theatre
Brno Public Transport Authority
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NTB: Janáček Theatre
www.dpmb.cz
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NTB: Mahen Theatre
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Brno City Theatre
www.idos.cz
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Brno Philharmonic
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CET: Goose on a String Theatre
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commemorate the heroic defence of the city against the Swedish army during the Thirty Years’ War.
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OLD TOWN HALL
MARKET TRH * In its vaulted passage it shelters two 5 VEGETABLE ZELNÝ symbols of Brno: a stuffed crocodile – the so-call “Brno dragon” and a wooden A 13th century square with a market, founcart wheel. tain, sculptural group and two theatres. As in years past, here you can still buy fresh * Old Town Hall courtyard and tower with fruit and vegetables. And there’s plenty a lookout gallery to see:
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PETROV
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ŠPILBERK CASTLE
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BRNO’S STATUES
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VEGETABLE MARKET
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VILLA TUGENDHAT
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BRNO UNDERGROUND
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OLD TOWNSTARÁ HALL RADNICE
Brno’s oldest secular building, centre of city government from the mid-13th century until 1935 * The statue Courage was installed in 2015 by sculptor Jaroslav Róna. This * The Old Town Hall has Late Gothic por8-metre bronze statue portrays a knital with a contorted tower, the work of ght on an unusually long-legged horse, and is an allegory of courage. sculptor Anton Pilgram.
→ TIC BRNO Information Centre, Radnická 8, www.ticbrno.cz 2
PETROV
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* Indoor market with a view of the town * The Baroque fountain entitled Parnas by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
The Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul * Dietrichstein Palace, one of the oldest palaces in Brno stands atop Petrov Hill and dominates the city’s skyline. Its origins reach back to the 1170s, when a Romanesque rotunda was * Baroque house of the abbots of the erected on the site. Žďár Monastery and the House of the Lords of Fanal, where today perform the * The Cathedral underwent one Gothic Goose on a String Theatre and two Baroque reconstructions; the two characteristic towers are more * Reduta Theatre, one of oldest theatre recent – the work of August Kirstein buildings in Europe, in which 11-year during a Neo-Gothic rebuild in 1909. old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart once performed * At the foot of Petrov is a park, Denis Gardens, offering a panoramic view of * Labyrinth under the Vegetable Market, a convoluted network of medieval paBrno and its southern surroundings. In ssageways and cellars good weather you can see the hills of Pálava in the distance. 6 VILLA TUGENDHAT VILA TUGENDHAT * The park also features a colonnade with a fountain and an 1818 obe- The most famous of the so-called “Brno lisk to commemorate the end of the Villa Quartet”. Signature Functionalist moNapoleonic Wars. nument registered as a World Heritage Site. → Petrov 9, www.katedrala-petrov.cz 3
ŠPILBERKHRAD CASTLE ŠPILBERK
* The house was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Greta and Fritz Tugendhat
A sweeping castle complex from the 13th * Formal architectural purity framed in century, rebuilt in the 17th and 18th cena natural setting, mutually permeating turies as a mighty military fortress and spaces, technical and structural solutisubsequently as a prison for the most danons and the use of precious raw materials gerous criminals and political enemies. Here we can see: * Other important Brno villas include the Art Nouveau Löw-Beer Villa (Drobného * Parapets with breath-taking views over 22), the Art Nouveau Jurkovič House Brno, and the castle, housing the Brno (Jana Nečase 2) and the Functionalist City Museum and also staging a variety Stiassni Villa (Hroznová 14). of concerts, theatrical performances → Černopolní 45, www.tugendhat.eu and festivals. BRNĚNSKÉ PODZEMÍ * Castle chimes – a 15-bell carillon; also, 7 BRNO UNDERGROUND a lookout in the corner tower, and the Four mysterious guided tours beneath the Baroque Holy Trinity Chapel city, each belonging to a different era: * The casemates – dark, vaulted passageways into the bowels of which have A The Labyrinth under the Vegetable disappeared many of the Hapsburg Market comprises a warren of Baroque Empire’s most barbarous criminals cellars. → Zelný trh 21, www.ticbrno.cz → Špilberk 1, www.spilberk.cz 4
BRNO’S STATUES BRNĚNSKÉ SOCHY
B The Mint Master’s Cellar brings to life the forgotten art of minting coins. → Dominikánské nám. 1, www.ticbrno.cz
The centre of Brno is dotted with many C Ossuary at the Church of St James – statues, the most famous being the clock the second largest ossuary in Europe, on Freedom Square and the statue Courage in which the remains of over 50,000 on Moravian Square. people are interred. → St James’ Square, www.ticbrno.cz * The time machine or town clock made of black granite was installed in 2010 D 10-Z Fallout Shelter, buried deep in the rock below Špilberk, it was designed by sculptor Oldřich Rujbr and student to take in up to 500 people. → Husova Petr Kameník. Its nearly 6-metre shape is intended to evoke a bullet, and so ulice, www.10-z.cz
Moravian Gallery in Brno
MORAVSKÁ MORAVIAN GALLERYGALERIE IN BRNO V BRNĚ
NÁRODNÍ NATIONAL THEATREDIVADLO IN BRNO BRNO
The second biggest art museum in the The theatre opened 1881, following the Czech Republic offers a broad spectrum example set by the National Theatre in Prague. of cultural events.
National Theatre Brno
The Curtain – Janáček Theatre
* The gallery’s history dates back to 1818. * During the season, plays, ballet and Today it combines fine and applied arts opera are performed in three buildings – at the Janáček Theatre, Mahen in permanent and visiting exhibitions. Theatre and Reduta Theatre. In su* MG is located in four separate and mmer, performances are held outdoors. architecturally significant buildings: Pražák Palace, Museum of Applied Arts, * Mahen Theatre – the first fully electrically lit theatre on the European Governor’s Palace and Jurkovič House. mainland. + Other museums and galleries: Brno City Museum, Brno House of Arts, Moravian * In summer months the park in front of Janáček Theatre, with its water founMuseum, Technical Museum, Fait Gallery, Mitrovský Summer Villa, TIC Gallery, tain, is thronged with people. Mendel Museum, Museum of Romani Culture, Diocesan Museum and others. + Other theatres and philharmonic venues: Brno City Theatre, Brno Philharmonic, Centre for Experimental Theatre (HaDivadlo, Goose on a String Theatre, At the Table Theatre), Bolek Polívka Theatre
Beyond the centre Brno Dam BRNO DAMBRNĚNSKÁ PŘEHRADA
Brno Observatory and Planetarium
A PLANETÁRIUM BRNO BRNOHVĚZDÁRNA OBSERVATORY AND PLANETARIUM
Popular recreation and leisure resort. The Centre aiming to popularize astronomy and shores are lined with beaches, numerous other sciences. children’s playgrounds, sports facilities, and places to hire boats, paddle boats and * Before entering the planetarium, you can have a go on a range of interactive paddleboards. exhibits, such as a kaleidoscope, pixel * Veveří Castle is close by – making an wall, sound tube and gravity gauge. ideal destination for a pleasure cruise. → Kraví hora 2, www.hvezdarna.cz → Water transport: www.dpmb.cz VIDA! SCIENCE CENTRE CENTRUM VIDA! SCIENCE → Veveří Castle: www.hrad-veveri.cz BRNO ZOO
Fun science amusement park with a permanent interactive exhibition for children Since 1953, Brno Zoo has been attracting and adults. visitors to its natural setting of Monk’s Hill * Chance to present a TV weather forein Brno-Bystrc. cast, release your own tornado or flood * Offers encounters with fascinating a village. animals from all over the world, newly → Křížkovského 12, www.vida.cz among them a pair of Congo lions. ZOO BRNO
Brno Zoo
→ U Zoolog. zahrady 46, www.zoobrno.cz
Tourism portal GOtoBRNO.cz VIDA! Science Centre
Tour routes charting interesting Brno themes, tips about where to get good food and drink, or events and festivals it’d be a shame to miss. That’s GOtoBRNO.cz. A modern tourism portal making it easy to find the fun things to do in Brno. And it’ll stop you
getting lost. You also can read up-to-date info about transport, and learn about other printed materials and information centres. And we’ll recommend what designer gifts you might want to take back home.
TIC BRNO ← GO TO BRNO.cz ←
Publisher: City of Brno, Dominikánské nám. 196/1, 602 00 Brno
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