🏛️ Tugendhat Villa in Brno

Czechia · Europe · Cultural · 49.21°N, 16.62°E

Villa Tugendhat is an architecturally significant building in Brno, Czech Republic. It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich. It was built between 1928 and 1930 for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, of the wealthy and influential Jewish Czech Tugendhat family. Of reinforced concrete, the villa soon became an icon of modernism. Famous for its revolutionary use of space and industrial building materials, the building was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001.

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Quick facts

Country	Czechia
Continent / region	Europe
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	49.21°N, 16.62°E · view on map

Tugendhat Villa in Brno is a cultural World Heritage site in Czechia, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Tugendhat Villa in Brno was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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