Josef Taufer Student Dormitory (Jana Babaka 3/5, Brno) is regularly used as a commercial hotel during school vacations and it offers apartments with two double rooms sharing one bath and a kitchenette. The participants may book either a bed in a double room or a whole double room as a single room. The accommodation is with breakfast.

Prices:

• Double — 100.00 € / 2,500.00 CZK for 6 nights
• Double together with accompanying person — 200.00 € / 5,000.00 CZK for 6 nights
• Single — 120.00 € / 3,000.00 CZK for 6 nights

The prices are special offers arranged for the participants and have been booked for a fixed package of six nights with arrival on Thursday, August 26 and departure on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Some additional nights are available. They are charged by 25 € / 600 CZK / night, and again, they have to be negotiated via the organizers. Please, use the Special wishes column for indicating extra nights.

The hostel accommodation cost is payable together with the conference fee.

Continental Hotel (*** category), Kounicova 6, Brno. It is situated in the centre of the town with easy access from the train/bus stations and 10 minutes walking distance to the conference site. The given prices are with breakfast.

Prices:

• Double — 30.00 € / 750.00 CZK per night
• Double together with accompanying person — 60.00 € / 1,500.00 CZK per night
• Single — 42.00 € / 1,050.00 CZK per night

The prices are special offers arranged for the participants, the accommodation is booked for the basic period August 26 – September 1, 2010. Additional nights are possible, please use the Special wishes column for indicating extra nights.

The hotel accommodation cost is payable at the hotel desk as usual.

It´s possible to take a direct flight to Brno, but there is only limited number of connections.

Other possibilities are:

From Prague airport

From Vienna airport

From Brno airport

Bus 76 goes to the main station (day bus route). Bus 89 (night bus route) goes directly almost to the hotel (get off at Česká stop). Price for the taxi is about 500 CZK/25 EUR.

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From hotels to the conference site
The conference place is quite close to both Continental Hotel and Josef Taufer Student Dormitory, approximately 10-15 min on foot. To get there from Hotel Continental you can take trolleybus 32, 34, 36, 29 from Ceska stop and get off at the 2nd stop - Susilova.

From the Hostel to the Faculty of Science
Take tram No.x13 from Tererova stop (Česká direction) to Konečného náměstí stop (on the left side you´ll see botanical garden of the Faculty of Science).

From the Main Railway Station Brno to the Hotel Continental
Take tram No.1 (Řečkovice direction) – to Moravské náměstí stop, cross the lines and the little park, and you´ll find the hotel behind a big glass parking building (takes about 10-15 minutes)

From the Bus Terminal GRAND to the Hotel Continental
Take tram No.1 (Řečkovice direction) – to Moravské náměstí stop, cross the lines and the little park, and you´ll find the hotel behind a big glass parking building (takes about 10-15 minutes)

From the Main Railway Station Brno to Josef Taufer Student Dormitory
Take tram No.3 (Židenice direction) or No.11 (Lesná direction) to the Česká - Rašínova stop – then walk (see the map). You´ll get to Česká - Žerotínovo náměstí , take tram No.x13 (Technologický park direction) - Tererova stop.

See the map

City map
Road transport to the City of Brno
Rail transport to the City of Brno

Other useful transport links in www.brno.cz

Founded in the first half of the 13th century as a royal castle for the defence of Brno. After the 17th century it served as a provincial fortress, and in the 18th and 19th centuries it was a prison for political inmates, called the “prison of nations” of the Habsburg monarchy. It is famous e.g. thanks to many Italian Carbonari prisoners. In 1939-1940 it was prison of the Brno Gestapo, and afterwards served as a military building. Since 1960 it has been the central office of the Brno City Museum. There is a permanent exhibit in the castle`s casemates, and a new exhibition named “Spilberk – Prison of Nations”, as well as displays on Brno history and the City Museum gallery, are currently being prepared in the northern wing.

The Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul is located on the hilltop next to the city centre, on the presumed site of the former Brno castle (including a chapel) from the 11th and 12th centuries. After the old castle`s demise a detached Romanesque basilica was rebuilt as a Gothic cathedral in the 13th century, further modified in the 15th and 16th centuries, and converted to the Baroque style in the 18th century. Its current neo-Gothic form dates from the end of the 19th century. Since 1777 the cathedral has been the seat of the Brno bishop. The original church crypt from the 12th century is now accessible to visitors.

National Cultural site. Founded in the 13th century. The late gothic building we see today was constructed in the 14th and 15th century. (A. Pilgram, A. Gabri, M. Grim, builders) with its final touches added in the 16th century.

Dietrichstejn palace was built in the years 1613-16 by G.G.Tencalla. The monumental palace was rebuilt around the year 1720. Part of the building complex is the “bishop’s courtyard” built in 1352. Today’s Moravian Provincial Museum.

The Capuchin monastery and the church in the former Coal Market were built by Ondrej Erna in mid-17th Century. It contains a crypt with mummified bodie of the order members and benefactors of the Capuchin Order.