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Cairn of PeaceTOP DESTINATION

The Cairn of Peace is a unique memorial that brings a peaceful message. It is not devoted neither to heroic victors nor to courageous defeated ones, it was built to honour all victims of the memorable Battle of Austerlitz (2nd December 1805). The project was initiated by priest A. Slovák. His vision was to transform the previous battlefield into a pious place that represents hope and memento of wars. (On national holidays, commemoration days and during July and August the Cairn of Peace is festively...

Museum of Literature in Moravia - Benedictine Monastery in RajhradTOP DESTINATION

The premises of the Benedictine monastery in Rajhrad near Brno have a majestic effect. Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel, a famous Prague architect of radical Baroque was at its origination. His work also includes Saint Jan Johan Nepomucky pilgrimage church at the Zelená hora by Žďár nad Sázavou and Church of Virgin Mary’s Birth in Křtiny, closters in Plasy and Kladruby, the Thun Palace in Prague – the seat of the Czech Parliament and many others. The pearl of the complex of monasteries is the...

Alfons Mucha Exhibiton

Alfons Mucha Exhibition The title of the exhibition is Alfons Mucha, Native Son of Ivančice 1860 – 1939 and it expresses the painter’s lifelong relationship with his hometown. The exhibits are divided into four rooms. Mucha´s paintings and graphic art collections are housed in the large hall. These mainly include study-pieces of nudes, a large sketch on cardboard for one of his monumental paintings of the Slavonic Epopee“ The Brethren School in Ivančice”, and the renowned pastel sketches...

Folk architecture in Gross Vrbce

Protected folk architecture, stone barns and sheds. Local folk costumes, famous for its folk music and folk singers. Birthplace of the Orthodox Bishop Gorazd, who was executed by the Nazis for sheltering the perpetrators of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, exposure. The newly established Orthodox monastery. A monument on the border of Moravia and Slovakia commemorates outlaws executed by the Emperor's army.

Hradisko with reliefs Bezruč P. and JB Foestra in Great Opatovice

About 1.5 km south of the town found remnants of an ancient fortification. Hradisko at a height of 513 m was built before the end of the Bronze Age people věteřovseké culture. It horseshoe shape with an area of ​​1.8 hectares and was fortified with a simple mound with a moat. The rocks below the fort are carved reliefs presenting the poet Peter Bezruč (of 1947) and composer JB Foestra (of 1952), whose author is a sculptor Charles Otahal. Hradisko with reliefs are available on the red tourist...

Jesuit High School and the Jesuit college in Znojmo

The building complex was built by the Jesuits in the 17th centuries significant high school student, the inventor of lightning Prokop Divis, recalls the bust in the park in front of the track, which houses the Moravian Land Archives.

South Moravian Museum in Znojmo - Memorial Prokop Divis in Přímětice

Basic elements of the presentation: A small building of the memorial from the Brno architect Bohuslav Fuchs dates from 1936 and is an interesting architectural detail of the village. Inside is an exhibition commemorating the life Prokop Divis, especially its research and discoveries in the field of physics, medicine and music. Memorial adds Divisova model most famous invention - the first grounded lightning rod in the world.

Mniszkův Cross in Vranov

Mniszkův Cross, based on the so-called Cross Hill, dates from shortly after 1847. She let him in honor of her late husband Stan owner of the castle built by Helen of Mniszek, at a place that you liked and where they like to go up.

Moravské zemské muzeum – Památník Leoše Janáčka v Brně

Nově otevřený Janáčkův domek se po rekonstrukci vrací k původní dispozici vnitřního prostoru. Nachází se zde audiovizuální sál, součástí expozice je výstava věnovaná skladatelovým vrcholným dílům a především kompletně dochovaná Janáčkova pracovna.

German cemetery in Pohořelice

Metal cross the road to Mikulov, located at the mass grave of victims of the so-called wild displacement, reminds one of the most tragic aftermath of the Second World War. 30th May 1945, three weeks after the end of the Second World War and three months before the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia blessing to the Potsdam Conference of Brno came from more than twenty thousand Germans, who later made history as the death march.
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