Aug. 8 - Litomyšl

Zámek Litomyšl, Litomyšl Castle, Renaissance chateau with an arcaded courtyard and sgraffito decoration built between 1568-1581. Zámecká věžička, Castle turret Renesanční zámecký komín, Renaissance castle chimney Museum of old and unusual keyboard instruments, third floor of the castle. Edna, from Mexico, on the 1846 pianoforte


Edna Gómez Ruiz on the 1846 pianoforte

Quarter-tone Piano Zámecký pivovar, Pivovar je rodištěm hudebního skladatele Bedřicha Smetany. (The castle brewery, birthplace of the composer Bedřich Smetana.) kostelem Nalezení sv. Kříže, the Church of the Finding of the Holy Cross Klášterní zahrady, Monastery gardens Regionální muzeum v Litomyšli, Regional Museum in Litomysl Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (1851 - 1930) produced a staggering number of historical novels during his long career. Nearly all of them dealt with some facet of his nation's struggle for independence from German, Austrian, and later Austro - Hungarian colonial rule. Literature scholars consider Jirásek the most important Czech prose writer in the era before World War I, but his "Legends of Old Bohemia" (illustrated by Jiří Trnka) is his sole work to be translated into English. From 1874 to 1888, Jirásek taught school in Litomyšl. Pomník Bedřicha Smetany, Monument to Bedřich Smetana Gastro Pass? offered by Sodexho, a giant, multi-national food corporation (which operated the school cafeteria in Dobruška where our "school lunches" were served when we were in town.) Our lunch spot