Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Brno, Czechia

28. října Square is a square in Brno, located in the Černá Pole district between Milady Horákové Street and Lužánky Park. The square has a rectangular floor plan and is oriented from north to south. In the middle of the square there is a city park, where a memorial to the Brno victims of the Holocaust has been located since 2014.

Wikipedia: Náměstí 28. října (Brno) (CS)

Janáček Theatre is an opera house in the city of Brno, Czech Republic. It is the largest of the three theatres serving the National Theatre Brno ("NdB") opera and ballet company, the others being the Mahen and the Reduta. It was built starting in 1960 after decades of delay and finally opened in October 1965, since when it has premiered some twenty operas and ballets. A major renovation was completed in 2018. The building's façade is north-facing, away from the city center and towards the nearby house of its namesake composer, who is grandly memorialized on the adjacent landscaped green.

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Moravian Square is a public space in the centre of the Brno-centre district, located on the north-eastern edge of the cadastral area of the City of Brno. Its northern part is occupied by two parks, separated by a tram and a road. In the eastern of them there is a monumental monument "Victory of the Red Army over Fascism" by sculptor Vincenc Makovský. The western part takes the form of a recreational park with trees and flower beds, in its center there is a multifunctional area with a water feature and a café. In the southern part of Moravian Square stands the Church of St. Thomas with the adjacent area of the Augustinian monastery. The cobblestone square is closed by the DOPZ building block with the Scala cinema from the south and the seat of the Supreme Administrative Court from the west.

Wikipedia: Moravské náměstí (CS)

The Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, originally the Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary and St. Thomas the Apostle, is a Baroque parish church, originally a Gothic Augustinian monastery church. It is located in the Brno-střed district of Brno in the south of Moravian Square in the cadastral area of the City of Brno.

Wikipedia: Kostel Zvěstování Panny Marie a svatého Tomáše apoštola (CS), Website

The Governor's Palace in Brno is a Baroque building standing on Moravian Square in Brno. Since 1990 it has been managed by the Moravian Gallery in Brno. It offers an extensive exhibition of art from the Gothic to the 19th century, as well as space for short-term exhibition projects. The building also houses the ArtMap bookstore and the Morgal café, whose architect is Martin Hrdina.

Wikipedia: Místodržitelský palác (Brno) (CS)

Saint James` church is a late Gothic three-nave church situated in James' square in the centre of Brno, in Czech Republic. Its history starts in the beginning of the 13th century. The church was categorized as a national monument in 1995.

Wikipedia: Church of St. James (Brno) (EN), Website

Ossuary at st. James, also known as the Brno Ossuary, is an ossuary located under Jakubské Square in the cadastral area of Brno-City, for the most part directly below the Church of St. James. It is the second largest in Europe in terms of the number of remains found, right after the one in Paris.

Wikipedia: Brněnská kostnice (CS), Website En

The Plague Column is a Baroque column on Freedom Square in Brno. It was built in 1679–1683 to commemorate the extensive plague epidemic that plagued the city in 1679–1680. It is located in the northern (upper) part of the square and forms its distinctive landmark. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and five plague saints. Its early Baroque appearance is based on the appearance of the Marian Column erected on Am Hof Square in Vienna.

Wikipedia: Morový sloup (Brno) (CS)

The Brno astronomical clock is a black stone monument in Brno, Czech Republic. It is situated at Náměstí Svobody, the main square in the Brno City Centre. The monument was proposed by the mayor of Brno, Roman Onderka, and it was created by Oldřich Rujbr and Petr Kameník. Every day at 11:00 AM, the clock releases a glass marble, which spectators can catch from one of four openings in the monument and take with them as a souvenir. The clock was unveiled on September 18, 2010, for the 365th anniversary of Brno's resistance to the Swedish siege during the Thirty Years War. Although the monument is publicly known as an astronomical clock (orloj), it is only a clock. Construction of the clock took three years, at a cost of approximately 12 million CZK.

Wikipedia: Brno astronomical clock (EN)

Dům pánů z Lipé je renesanční dům stojící na brněnském náměstí Svobody č. 85/17.

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The Besední dům is a public building in Brno, standing on the southern corner of Komenský Square, at the mouth of Husova Street. From the east side, it is surrounded by Besední Street. It was built in 1870–1873 as part of the newly built ring road. The author of the historicist Neo-Renaissance building was the architect Theophil von Hansen. The Besední dům served as a cultural and social centre for the Czech inhabitants of the town and to a certain extent it has fulfilled its original function to this day. Between the 1980s and 1990s, it was adapted for the needs of the current Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, which is based there. In its history, it has become the scene or witness of a number of socially important events, including the public announcement of the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic from its balcony on October 29, 1918.

Wikipedia: Besední dům (CS)

The Red Church is a Protestant Church in Brno, Czech Republic. It was designed by architect Heinrich von Ferstel and built up between 1863 and 1867. Nowadays it is used by the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. The building is a cultural monument.

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Obilní trh is a square with a park in Brno, in the Veveří district, between Údolní and Gorky streets.

Wikipedia: Obilní trh (CS)

The Church of St. Wenceslas in Brno is a cathedral church of the Czech-Slovak Orthodox Church. It was built in the 1920s in the functionalist style.

Wikipedia: Pravoslavný chrám svatého Václava (Brno) (CS), Website

Špilberk Castle is a castle on the hilltop in Brno, Southern Moravia. Its construction began as early as the first half of the 13th century by the Přemyslid kings and completed by King Ottokar II of Bohemia. From a major royal castle established around the mid-13th century, and the seat of the Moravian margraves in the mid-14th century, it was gradually turned into a huge baroque citadel considered the harshest prison in the Austrian Empire, and then into barracks. This prison had always been part of the Špilberk fortress and is frequently referenced by the main character, Fabrizio, in Stendhal's novel, The Charterhouse of Parma.

Wikipedia: Špilberk Castle (EN)