Expert meeting - Brno
City of Brno
Brno, as the metropolis of Moravia, is the second largest city in the Czech Republic. It has a population of nearly 370,000 people. Brno is a statutory city of the Southern Moravia Region and a seat of universities and important judiciary institutions.
City of Brno prides itself on many notable historic sites that show evidence of its rich cultural history. Once established as a settlement of merchants eight centuries ago on the junctions of the rivers Svratka and Svitava, it withstood the pressure of both the Hussite and Swedish besiegement, witnessed Napoleon‘s military expedition to Slavkov, bore the cruel consequences of the Austrian defeat at the Battle of the Three Emperors, became an industrial centre of the Habsburg monarchy called "the Austrian Manchester" and, in the twentieth century, gained a character of a modern city thanks to the construction of new buildings in the functionalist style.
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