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South Moravian Region

Brno, Mendel's peas and a modern villa of glass.

55 museums
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📷 Harold · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

South Moravia has Brno, the Lednice-Valtice landscape of palaces and parks, and folk traditions in its villages.

Museums in South Moravian Region

Look inside, then pay your admission straight to the museum.

Places in South Moravian Region

★ Has its own city story

The story of South Moravian Region

In Brno, the Augustinian abbey where Gregor Mendel grew his peas is now the Mendel Museum, and Villa Tugendhat by Mies van der Rohe is a masterpiece of modern architecture. Špilberk castle has a museum and old prison tunnels. To the south, the Lednice-Valtice area is a huge landscaped park with palaces and follies on the UNESCO list. In the villages, the Ride of the Kings and colourful costumes live on.

  • 2001Villa Tugendhat on the UNESCO list
  • 1866Mendel publishes his laws of heredity

South Moravian Region through time

The big moments, and where to see them today.

  1. 1805Napoleon wins the Battle of Austerlitz near Brno.See it: Austerlitz Battlefield Memorial

What to do in South Moravian Region

  1. 01

    Mendel Museum

    The garden and abbey of the father of genetics.

    Brno1 hour
  2. 02

    Villa Tugendhat

    A modern villa of 1930.

    Brno1 hour
  3. 03

    Špilberk Castle

    Museum of the city and the old prison.

    Brno2 hours
Getting there

Getting to South Moravian Region

From the airport to the city centre by public transport, then the trains and local lines to the museums.

Arriving by plane

PRG
Prague Václav HavelPrague · Praha

Getting around South Moravian Region

Lines and timetables change. Check the operator’s website before you travel.

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Hidden story

The peas of Brno

A monk in Brno discovered the rules of heredity.

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Between 1856 and 1863, the monk Gregor Mendel grew about 28,000 pea plants in the garden of his abbey in Brno, carefully counting smooth and wrinkled, green and yellow peas. He found the rules by which features are passed on. His work was ignored for 35 years, until scientists rediscovered it in 1900. Today he is called the father of genetics.