Visit to Brno, Czech Republic, February 24-28, 2002-The Sites of the City of Brno

The view of Brno from the Castle, with the Mendel Institute
below (Yes, Mendel of the genetic pea experiment fame)
near the Church (Mendel was a monk)

 

Schwanz´s Palace, sometimes called the House of the Lords of
Lipa. It was designed by Antonio Gabri for the Brno wine-merchant
Christopher Schwanz and is perhaps the finest piece of Renaissance
architecture in Brno.

 

 

One of the many interesting architectural
styles in Brno

 

Another Renaissance style building turned into
a shopping mall on the interior

 

But not all architecture is directed at brick and mortar. Here
are some Easter cakes in a shop window

Here is the ''Old Town Hall" of Brno

 

If you look closely, the center tower is bent. The
story is that the city refused to pay the builder the
agreed sum for the construction, so the builder
finished the building with a bent façade in the center

  

Inside the Town Hall are the "Brno Dragon" and the Brno Wheel
There are legends behind each item.

Within the "Old Town Hall" courtyard is "The Wheel" restaurant celebrating
the Moravian carpenter, who, according to the legend, managed to fell a tree, to make
a wheel of its wood, and to roll it from Lednice to Brno (40 km) in a single day

  

The famous "Red Church" of Jan Hus, the Czech religious reformer
of the 15th century.

Another view of the Red Church of Jan Hus

 For Photos of the Slavkov (Battle of Austerlitz) click on Slavkov

For Photos of the University and libraries in Brno, see: Brno

For the Faculty of Arts Central Library page, see: http://www.phil.muni.cz/knihovna/akuvod.htmr

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