#To Brno2019/2020 Food Movement Shopping Live culture A slow walk Leisure UPWARDS TO BRNO Just 300 years ago, Brno was a small, picturesque town parks everywhere – oases of calm, comfortable places to Brno has style, and this brochure only surrounded by vineyards. Then 100 years later, the town relax. Have an active lifestyle? Love to move? Swimming, transformed into an industrial metropolis and the flou- running, cycling, and exercising in parks are all currently rishing industry made it possible to turn Brno into a real popular in Brno. And bring your kids with you. They’re a limited number of pages. If you can’t suburb of Vienna with a similar ring road and all the prop- welcome! Open and covered playgrounds and play areas er cultural amenities. It’s the city of Janáček, Mendel, can be found around every corner in Brno. Cosy cafes find some information in here, you’ll Mahen, Těsnohlídek, Lev and Ivan Blatný, the Haas bro- where no one will even bat an eye at your offspring. thers, Kurt Gödel, Ernst Mach, and Robert Musil and is Speaking of cafes, the food and drink in Brno is another definitely find it at connected to many other interesting people. What’s this excellent reason to come. Hundreds of restaurants and pocket-sized city like today? Come and find out. Brno is bistros, from traditional Czech cuisine to current global a place that will satisfy your soul and your body. There are trends. Fresh local ingredients, inventive interiors, alter- countless ways to enjoy it. Whether you come for a week- native cafes, beer tasting pubs, top cocktail bars, and end or longer, every second will be filled with something. restaurants – that’s the local food scene, which has There’s no chance to get bored. What can you expect? helped to place Brno among the top cites for quality of Rich and varied cultural life, operas, a philharmonic, doz- life. Don’t miss out on the colourful nightlife, whether in ens of galleries, new trends in contemporary art, alterna- sophisticated bars or alternative clubs. What should you tive music clubs. Something for every taste. Prefer not to take home with you? Hard to say. For shopaholics, Brno is plan and instead be carried away by the spirit of the city? paradise. It’s full of markets, bazaars, antique stores, and Walk through the bustling centre and calm periphery to shopping centres as well as creative souvenirs and the the forests surrounding the city. In Brno, superb art nou- work of local fashion designers. veau architecture meets airy functionalism. There are See you in Brno! CONTENT Discover in Czech, English, and German #Live culture 4–7 #A slow walk 8–11 #Leisure 12–15 what can be learned, experienced, and tasted in Brno. A selection of the most in- teresting memorials, self-guided walks, the best eateries, and an overview of events currently going on in the city. With, of course, practical information to #Food 20–23 #Movement 24–27 #Shopping 28–31 keep you from getting lost. Pay special TIC BRNO RECOMMENDS attention to the newest section, Brno Phenomenon, which presents lifestyle topics. #Christmas in Brno 34–35 #Brno industrial 36–37 #Live culture Brno has always been a city of music, theatre, art, and audacious architecture. The mix of several cultures gave the city its diversity and attractiveness and still contributes to the city today. Brno has many professional theatres, a philharmonic orchestra, concert halls of all sizes, and dozens of galleries and museums. It hosts music festivals with long traditions, such as Moravian Autumn and JazzFestBrno, and has clear connec- tions with the famous composer Leoš Janáček, with an international biennale named after him. Throughout the year, there are festivals in all genres. But Brno is also shaped by small, independent alternative associations and local communities. The city proudly takes part in the trend of music and art in public spaces. Art lives in the streets, play- grounds, meadows, planetarium, darkened cinemas. Music is omnipresent and so one of the reasons Brno is able to boast of its prestigious title as a UNESCO Creative City of Music. NOT JUST LEOŠ Brno also has HaDivadlo, the Bolek A FEAST FOR THE EARS Polívka Theatre, and the independ- The works of composers whose You can find concerts by the most ent stages of BuranTeatr and Druhý names might not shine as bright as prominent musicians from alterna- Pád Theatre. The accessible Barka Leoš Janáček can now be heard in tive scenes and promising local and Theatre is open to all theatregoers the Old Town Hall courtyard, gar- foreign bands in Brno several times regardless of ability. dens, and arboretums where locals a week. They play in clubs and halls, and visitors can hear untradition- including Metro, Sono, and Kabinet ↓ This original statue in front of Reduta al sounds and the music of the Theatre commemorates a concert by the MÚZ. The oldest club is Fléda, which future. Brno has a strong tradition young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. began as the Brünner Fledermaus of progressive music, as can be ↑ Author´s Reading Month - literary festival. seen especially in the Exposition of New Music and concerts across where you can take whatever book the centuries from baroque music you like or leave a book you’ve read to well-known film scores are per- to be enjoyed by others. The city is formed in Brno churches and the where Authors’ Reading Month, the Špilberk Castle courtyard. Brno’s largest Central European literary fest- boroughs come to life with small- ival, was founded and is held every er festivals, including Ghettofest July. And film lovers certainly know and the Kamenka Open in the the Brno 16 international short film unique setting of Kamenná čtvrť. festival. There are many other film In summer, the centre is the site exhibitions and festivals throughout of the Uprostřed festival. Then the the year. Brno has two multiplex cin- ↑ You can enjoy musical experiences at multi-genre Brno Music Marathon emas as well as classic single-screen places like the Sono Centrum concert hall. fills the streets for four days with cinemas. Lucerna, the oldest Brno buskers, the New Circus, jazz, and cinema, began under the name Bio classical and folk music. Did you know that …? Aladin in 1915. Kino Art draws viewers to its pop-up showings, where you can enjoy a screening and party in appropriate dress in such locations (Brno Bat) cabaret and dance hall as the zoo or a strip club. In summer, more than 100 years ago. You’ll find there are several places to watch ARE ART & HISTORY LOVED? what you like, whether it’s guitar or films under the stars. Art in Brno includes art works and electronic dance music. For pro- installations in galleries and muse- gressive serious music, you can find ums and also in clubs, cafes, and concerts at the hall of the Janáček ON STAGES SMALL ••• The former prison on Cejl is the the streets. Perhaps during a walk Academy of Music and Performing AND LARGE site of troubled history. It’s also a through the city, you’ll hit upon the Arts. Experimental music is played in ••• the City Theatre at the Wall unique historical space now being It’s said that Brno is a small Vienna tracks of the street artist TIMO. Or the PRAHA cafe. You can hear jazz, (now Mahen Theatre), which revived with a new dramaturgy. It because it was built based on you can set out with your kids for rock, folk, and other genres in pubs opened in 1882, was the first regularly hosts tours, theatre per- the Austrian model. And it shares Anthropos, where you’ll find an iconic and clubs, which Brno has dozens of. theatre in Europe with electric formances, exhibitions, concerts, with the city on the Danube a love giant mammoth and art made by The current trend in the Brno elec- lighting? This historical milestone and workshops. for coffee and theatre. Brno City our ancient ancestors. In the Brno tronic scene is parties in the streets is marked by the four light bulbs Theatre offers contemporary plays City Museum at Špilberk Castle, you and parks. They sometimes feature on Malinovsky Square. ••• Brno was the birthplace of the and musicals. Mahen Theatre, pre- can learn about the history of Brno music from local analogue beats writers Ivan Blatný and Bohumil viously the City Theatre at the Wall, from its founding to the present. producers, who are often connected Hrabal, composers Vítězslava was built in 1882 and is, together FAIT GALLERY sits in a former fac- to the globally known Brno commu- Kaprálová, Josef Berg, Erich with Janácek Theatre and Reduta tory founded in 1865 by Friedrich nity around Bastl Instruments, which Wolfgang Korngold, and Pavel ↑ In summer, the Brno centre comes alive Theatre, the site of National Theatre Wannieck. To see pictures and ar- makes modular synthesizers. Haas, and Haas’s brother, the well- through music. Brno performances. It is also where tistic design, head for the Moravian ↓ You can find postcards from TIMO at known actor Hugo Haas? a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gallery in Brno. If you’re interested in information centres. More info at you can find a reliable and performed in 1767. Such festivals natural sciences, visit the Moravian www.darkyzbrna.cz, www.giftsfrombrno.cz. ••• READ FOR A WHOLE MONTH up-to-date guide to Brno in the as Theatre World Brno, Setkání/ Museum on Vegetable Market. For cultural magazine WHERE in Brno? Brno residents love to read and go to Encounter, and the Summer contemporary art, head for the TIC It comes out monthly with inter- the cinema.