Mikulov Castle (German: Nikolsburg) is a castle in the town of

Mikulov Mikulov (; ) is a town in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,600 inhabitants. From the 16th to the 19th century, it was the cultural centre of the Jewish community of Moravia. The historic centr ...

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of the

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. The castle is on a site of historic Slavonic settlement, where the original stone castle was erected at the end of the 13th century. The end of

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saw the castle destroyed by a fire whose origins are unclear. During the war, the anthropological collection from the Moravské zemské muzeum had been moved to Mikulov Castle for safekeeping purposes. Many of the most important discoveries from Předmostí u Přerova, Dolní Věstonice and the

Mladeč caves The Mladečské Caves () are a cave complex in the municipality of Mladeč in the Czech Republic. It is located in the Třesín National Nature Monument within the Litovelské Pomoraví Protected Landscape Area. The complex labyrinth of Fracture ...

were destroyed by the fire.

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Monuments in Mikulov

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