Ye Olde Stadium

FC Brno was once the city's well-respected football team. Brno still has a football team, but it's not really that respected. Really, I went to a match and thought, "If I'd grown up in Europe I would've had a shot a being a pro football player." Yeah, they're not that great. What remains from the halcyon days of Brno football is the stadium. Disused and fallen into disrepair, here it is.


I'm told that once upon a time thousands of fans would pack the place screaming and chanting and stomping. It would've been glorious. The last match there was 7 years ago. When I first saw it last fall there were trees taller than me growing in the stands. When I got there early this year someone had been out with a chipper to get rid of the biggest shrubbery. Rumor has it that it's going to be torn down and replaced with a new one. There are stirrings of anger about that in some quarters of the city. It is still a beloved place. After all, it's still got a bit of magic left in it.

Cool building at Masná

I go by this building several times a week. I get off the tram here to go to a company where I have four different classes. It's on the south east side of the city, on Cejl Street. The tram stop is Masná.

The House of the Four Idiots

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This is a building on námĕstí Svobody that is known as The House of the Four Idiots, Dům u čtyř mamlasů in Czech. It was built for one “of Brno's richest nineteenth-century Jewish industrialists.” p358, The Rough Guide to the Czech & Slovak Republics

Now it's just one of a warren of commercial buildings, like everything else on náměstí Svobody.