Villa Tugendhat

Villa Tugendhat and Brno Philharmonic

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March 27th 2008
On this particularly lovely day, I was able to join a small group of people in visiting an UNESCO World Heritage Site: Villa Tugendhat. The Villa was created by the famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in Brno, for Fritz and Greta Tugendhat in the 1930s and is now a protected site. Fritz and Greta were not able to live in their beautiful, highly modern villa for long; they were a Jewish fami ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more