Brno, Czech Republic Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

As the second-largest city in the Czech Republic, with a couple of really good museums and galleries plus a fair bit of nightlife, BRNO is worth a day of anyone's time. The city was a late developer, the first cloth factory being founded in 1766, but by the end of the nineteenth century it was easily the largest city in Moravia. Between the wars Brno enjoyed a cultural boom, heralded by the 1928 Exhibition of Contemporary Culture, which provided an impetus for much of the city's modernist architecture. After the war, Brno's German-speakers (one quarter of the population) were sent packing on foot to … more »