Places with a story

South Moravia

Almond Trail (Hustopeče) — A 9 km signed trail through the almond groves, with shorter loops.
Anenský vrch — A small protected hill near Mikulov, managed by the state conservation agency.
AZ Tower — The tallest building in the Czech Republic, finished in 2013.
Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady — The Gothic church of the Old Brno monastery, a national monument since 2023.
Battle of Wisternitz — 5 August 1619: the Moravian estates stopped an imperial advance here.
Belvedere Hunting Lodge — Restored in 2021 and reopened as a café on Liščí vršek.
Bezručova alej — Six kilometres of lime and chestnut, planted in 1715 to link two castles.
Border Castle — A classicist summer house built astride the old land border.
Brick Bridge to Portz Island — A 17th-century Baroque arched bridge, restored in 2020.
Brno Central Cemetery — The city's largest cemetery, with a crematorium and a Soviet war memorial.
Brno City Theatre — Two stages on Lidická — drama on one, musicals on the other.
Brno Ossuary — Up to 50,000 people beneath the square — Europe's second largest ossuary.
cathedral of St. Peter and Paul — Brno's silhouette, twin 84 m towers — and the building on the 10-koruna coin.
Chapel of Sts Cyril and Methodius (Podivín) — A hexagonal domed chapel built over a spring, set into the ground.
Church of Saint Leonard — The only building left of the drowned village of Mušov.
Church of St Andrew (Popice) — The parish church of Popice u Hustopečí.
Church of St Barbara (Šakvice) — The parish church of Šakvice, a protected monument.
Church of St George (Starovice) — The parish church of Starovice, protected since 1964.
Church of St John the Baptist (Boleradice) — The parish church of Boleradice — not the fortified one at Kurdějov.
Church of St Stanislaus (Úvaly) — A filial church of the Valtice parish, in Úvaly.
Church of St Wenceslas and St Agnes (Hustopeče) — Built 1992-94, replacing a Gothic church demolished in 1962.
Church of St. James — Late-Gothic hall church in the old centre, with 50,000 dead beneath the square.
Church of the Assumption (Diváky) — An 1873 parish church, one of two landmarks in the village.
Church of the Assumption (Valtice) — The parish church of Valtice, a protected monument.
Colonnade on Reisten — A classical colonnade on the ridge above Valtice, built to be seen from far off.
Děvičky Castle (Dívčí hrady) — A Gothic ruin on a limestone crag at 428 m, on the Děvín ridge.
Děvín — At 550 m, the highest point of Pálava — with a castle ruin on its lower summit.
Diana's Temple — A hunting lodge and salet by the Rendez-vous pond outside Valtice.
Dietrichstein tomb — The Dietrichstein family vault, rebuilt after the town fire of 1784.
Diváky Château — A Baroque residence built for the Brno Jesuits in the 1740s.
Dolní Věstonice — Mammoth hunters camped here 28,000 years ago — one of Europe's key Palaeolithic sites.
Former Synagogue, Podivín — The former Jewish prayer house of Podivín.
Janáček Theatre — Brno's 1960s opera house, and the Philharmonic's stand-in concert hall.
Jewish Cemetery, Mikulov — One of the most important Jewish cemeteries in the country.
Kamenice u Hlohovce — Protected xerothermic grassland west of Hlohovec.
Kamenný vrch (Kurdějov) — Protected steppe grassland on the north-east edge of Kurdějov.
Katzelsdorf Hunting Lodge — A ruined hunting lodge between Valtice and the Austrian border.
Kozí hrádek — A late-Gothic artillery tower on the hill above Mikulov.
Kukle — A national natural monument of dry grassland in the Ždánice forest.
Labyrinth under Vegetable Market, Brno — Cellars and passages under the market square, opened to the public in 2011.
Lednice Castle — Neo-Gothic Liechtenstein summer seat on the Dyje, with a vast landscaped garden.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape — 283 km² shaped into a single park by one family — Europe's largest composed landscape.
Mahen Theatre — The National Theatre's historic house on Malinovského náměstí.
Městský fotbalový stadion Srbská — Zbrojovka Brno's home in Královo Pole since 2001.
Mikulov Castle — Baroque château on a rock over the town, twice burned and twice rebuilt.
Mikulov Highlands — Soft flysch with hard limestone crags punching through it.
Minaret in Lednice — A 64.8 m minaret in a Moravian park — the only one in the country.
Mlýnský Rybník — The pond locals call Apollo, with a temple and a timber lookout on its shore.
Moorish Waterworks (Lednice) — A Moorish-style pump house that was also a steam bath.
Mušlovský dolní rybník — A long fishpond east of Mikulov with vineyards on the slopes around it.
Na Turoldu — 1,650 m of cave under Mikulov — the largest system in the Pálava reserve.
Nesyt — The largest pond in Moravia, and part of the Lednice Ponds reserve.
Nové Mlýny reservoirs — Three dams on the Dyje, built 1974-89 — and still argued about.
Old Town Hall (Brno) — The oldest secular building in Brno, town hall until 1935.
Pálava Protected Landscape Area — Limestone steppe and oak wood over the Dyje — a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1986.
Pastvisko u Lednice — A national natural monument north of Lednice, managed from Pálava.
Pavlovské vrchy — White limestone ridge running 20 km south from the Dyje to the Austrian border.
Přední kopaniny — Dry steppe turf with gentian and pasqueflower, protected since 2014.
Reduta Theatre — The National Theatre's stage on the Vegetable Market square.
Rendez-vous Nature Reserve — Pannonian oak woods on acid sand, east of Valtice.
Saint Hubertus chapel — The youngest of the small structures in the Lednice-Valtice landscape.
Siege of Brno (1645) — 500 soldiers and 1,000 townspeople held off 28,000 for nearly four months.
Sirotčí hrádek — A Gothic ruin on the Pálava ridge, already recorded as deserted in 1590.
South-Moravian Carpathians — Where the Carpathians reach into Moravia and across into Austria.
Špilberk Castle — Royal Gothic castle, Baroque fortress, then one of Europe's most feared prisons.
Stadion Za Lužánkami — The abandoned giant of Czech football, empty since 2001.
Stránská skála — A limestone outcrop on the city's edge, protected as a national monument since 1978.
Svatý kopeček — Holy Hill above Mikulov: a limestone crag, a bell tower and a chapel path.
Synagogue in Mikulov — The Upper Synagogue below the castle — the last one left of many.
Temple of the Three Graces — A colonnaded pavilion by the pond, with the Three Graces standing in front.
Valtice Castle — Baroque Liechtenstein residence, the second anchor of the UNESCO landscape.
Villa Tugendhat — Mies van der Rohe's 1930 masterwork, and a UNESCO site since 2001.

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