Castle · Brno, Czechia

Špilberk Castle

A hilltop fortress that spent the nineteenth century as the Habsburg empire's most feared prison, and now holds the city museum and the best view over the roofs.

Špilberk Castle is in Brno, and this is Brno — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 2 hours · Open year-round · 49.194°N, 16.599°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Trains and buses are cheap, frequent and comfortable; RegioJet and České dráhy both serve the main routes. All of Czechia →

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Brno · Moravia · Czechia

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Villa Tugendhat

Mies van der Rohe, 1930, and the building where modernism stopped being a manifesto and became a house somebody lived in. Entry is by timed tour and books out weeks ahead.

Monument

The record

What this atlas holds about Špilberk Castle, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Castle
Give it: 2 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 49.194°N, 16.599°E
In: Brno