Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Brno, Czechia

The Botanical Garden and Arboretum of Mendel University in Brno covers an area of 10.96 hectares in the south-east of the cadastral area of Ponava near the border with the Brno-North district, near Drobného Street and Generála Píky Avenue. Since 1990 it has been part of the Brno-Královo Pole district. There is an important collection of trees, shrubs, flowers and other plants, including exotic ones, imported from Japan. The Botanical Garden and Arboretum is an educational and purpose-built facility of Mendel University in Brno, which was founded by August Bayer in 1938, originally on an area of 2 hectares. Wedding ceremonies can be held in the garden. Exhibitions are held here several times a year.

Wikipedia: Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelovy univerzity v Brně (CS), Website

Schreber's gardens is the designation of the park in the Brno district of Brno-sever. The 2.4 ha park is located in the cadastral territory of Černá Pole on the approximate triangle between the streets of the Lesnická, Yugoslav and Volejníkova streets.

Wikipedia: Schreberovy zahrádky (CS)

Villa Tugendhat is an architecturally significant building in Brno, Czech Republic. It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich. It was built between 1928 and 1930 for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, of the wealthy and influential Jewish Czech Tugendhat family. Of reinforced concrete, the villa soon became an icon of modernism. Famous for its revolutionary use of space and industrial building materials, the building was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001.

Wikipedia: Villa Tugendhat (EN), Website

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

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

Lužánky is the largest city park in Brno and the oldest municipal park in the Czech Republic. The park is located in the Brno-střed District and covers an area of 22.3 hectares.

Wikipedia: Lužánky (EN)

The Blahoslav House is the spiritual centre of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren with a church in the Veveří district of Brno, in Lidická Street. 79.

Wikipedia: Blahoslavův dům (CS), Website

The Hussite Congregation in Botanická Street in Brno is a functionalist building located in the centre of Brno.

Wikipedia: Husův sbor (Brno-Veveří) (CS), Url

The Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University is located in Brno at the intersection of Kotlářská and Veveří streets, near Konečný náměstí.

Wikipedia: Botanická zahrada Přírodovědecké fakulty Masarykovy univerzity (CS), Website

Kraví hora is a hill with a city park and an observatory and a planetarium in the central basin of Brno. It lies about a kilometer northwest of the hill with the castle Špilberk, in the district of Veveří. The neighboring yellow hill is connected by a shallow saddle, where the Míru Square is located. Geomorphologically belongs to Kraví hora to Bobrava Highlands.

Wikipedia: Kraví hora (Bobravská vrchovina) (CS)

The Brno Observatory and Planetarium is a contributory organization of the Statutory City of Brno, whose history dates back to the 1950s. This cultural and educational institution, which combines an observatory and a planetarium, opened in 1954, is located in the middle of the park on the Kraví hora hill in the northwest of the Brno-střed district at an altitude of 305 m above sea level. The top of the planetarium dome, located at an altitude of 318 m above sea level, is the highest point within a radius of several kilometers. Since 2008, Jiří Dušek has been the director of the Brno Observatory and Planetarium.

Wikipedia: Hvězdárna a planetárium Brno (CS), Website

The Church of St. Augustine in Brno is a Roman Catholic church built in the functionalist style between 1932 and 1935 according to a project by architect Vladimír Fischer. The church is located in the centre of the Masaryk Quarter on Náměstí Míru, in the cadastral area of Stránice in the Brno-střed district. It is the parish church of the parish of Brno-sv. Augustin.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Augustina (Brno) (CS)

Dušan Jurkovič's own villa was built in 1906 at the foot of Brno's Wilson Forest. Located on Jana Nečas Street in Brno-Žabovřesky, the villa is one of the most important monuments of Art Nouveau architecture in Brno. The villa is listed in the catalogue of modern architecture of the international organization Iconic Houses, which brings together extraordinary works of world-class architects, architecturally significant houses, artists' houses and studios from the 20th century open to the public as house museums.

Wikipedia: Jurkovičova vila (CS)

The Yellow Hill is one of the hills in the central basin of the city of Brno, southwest to south of the neighbouring Kraví hora and west of the historical centre and Špilberk Castle. From the west and south it is surrounded by the Svratka River, into whose valley it descends very steeply in the west. It rises to the north above the Brno Exhibition Centre and reaches a height of 332 m above sea level at its highest point. It lies in the Bobravská Highlands on the edge of the Czech Highlands, almost on the border with the Outer Carpathian Depressions.

Wikipedia: Žlutý kopec (CS)

Villa Stiassni is a functionalist villa in Brno, which was built according to the design of Ernst Wiesner. It was completed in 1929. It was commissioned by Alfred Stiassni (1883–1961) and his wife Hermína, née Weinmannová, after whom the villa got its name. Since 2009, the villa has been managed by the National Heritage Institute. At the end of 2014, it was opened to the public. The villa is listed in the catalogue of modern architecture of the international organization Iconic Houses, which brings together extraordinary works by world-class architects, architecturally significant houses, artists' houses and studios from the 20th century open to the public as house museums.

Wikipedia: Vila Stiassni (CS), Website

Anthropos is a museum located in the city of Brno, South Moravia, Czech Republic. The museum is a part of the Moravské zemské muzeum. It focuses on exhibitions presenting the oldest history of Europe and mankind. In a 2009 exhibition, the museum presented the most important art works of the Paleolithic era, such as Venus of Willendorf and Venus of Dolní Věstonice.

Wikipedia: Anthropos Pavilion (EN), Website