Sights > Castles > Špilberk
20.3.2010 Zuzka / Number of presentasion: 235
Špilberk 1, 66224 Brno
GPS: 49° 11' 41" N 16° 35' 58" E
49.1948462 49.1948462
Tel.: +420 542 123 611 / E-mail
Originally a royal castle, founded in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 17th century into a sizeable Baroque fort. Till 1945 there was a prison and barracks. “Kasematy” – Baroque fort architecture and prisons in the Josephine era. The prison of the nations – the famous prison of the Habsburg Monarchy.