Brno's first modern hotel
Built for the merchants of a rising industrial city with too few decent inns.
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Two minutes as you pass, no more. It is not a destination but a detail that explains something about nineteenth-century Brno. If the city's architecture interests you, combine it with the functionalist Alfa Palace and the iron-fronted Klein Palace — the three tell three eras.
The UNESCO-listed Villa Tugendhat, which needs early booking; the Špilberk fortress; the cathedral of Peter and Paul; and the Capuchin crypt beneath its church. The main square with its black astronomical clock is the natural starting point.
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A mid-nineteenth-century building in central Brno that was the city's first modern hotel in the sense we would recognise today. It was built when Brno was a rising industrial city receiving merchants and travellers with too few decent inns to house them. The palace filled that gap and was among the grandest things in the city in its day. The front is classical, with columns, a projecting cornice and carved detail, one of the surviving examples of Brno's architecture from that period, when the city was rebuilding itself after its walls came down. The building today is in commercial and residential use and is not visited inside. What you do here is look at the façade from the street, and that takes a few minutes. It stands in the centre on the natural walking route between the station and the main square, so it costs you no detour and does not merit one.
Built for the merchants of a rising industrial city with too few decent inns.
Columns, a projecting cornice and carved detail from the city's rebuilding era.
A witness to the city reshaping itself once its fortifications came down.
Bašty street, central Brno