Brno, holy city

Brno was born in the fifteenth century how stronghold to face the extension of the protestantism and the Swedes. This happened in the war of the 30 years. Subsequently during the 18th century harbored an important industry textile and of engineering and thanks to the buoyant thing of their economy in 1850 the 32 municipalities close to the city decide to be grouped with this in a single company. During a time and even 1919 the majority of the population was Austrian, but to the desparecer as political company the empire south wind - Hungarian, Brno is integrated in the new Czechoslovakian nation. World War Two brings as consequence that the inhabitants of German tongue are expelled in the year 1945.



Brno is above all known by the factories that remain of the beginning of the industrial revolution and that during an epoch the surname was worth him of Manchester Czech. Also it possesses historic places more than manufacturing of interest as the Village Tugendhat, that is a good example of the functionalist architecture of the period from among wars. This it was built in 1929 by an architect German call Grain they Go der Rohe, and in the year 2002 was declared world heritage by the UNESCO.

As for their religious architecture we can emphasize the monastery of Holy Tomás, where Gregor Mendel development its genetic theories that nowadays are known like the laws of Mendel. Remained in the monastery to the year 1843. The cathedral of the holy Pedro and Pablo, whose foundation they stem from an old castle is found nailed in the hill of Petrov. Its architectural style is the Gothic late one and the crypt that hides is older than the own cathedral. This cathedral suffered a reconstruction between 1743 and 1746 for which splits of her has a baroque architectural style. The last construction dates from principles of the 20th century when were built the facade and the towers.

Inside the not religious construction fits to emphasize the old City Hall that was built in the century XIII and is the oldest civil building of the city emphasizing for its high tower