Interior view

The Castle Bucovice is a unique Italian Renaissance castle to find north of the Alps. Unlike most of the Renaissance buildings in Bohemia and Moravia, this is not a period conversion of an earlier residence, but an original project of a Late Renaissance “palazzo in fortezza” type building.

At the end of the 16th century, Brno experienced lively building activity, which brought Renaissance elements into the Gothic town. Foreign builders and Masonic masters have contributed to this. Around forty were working on the Renaissance transformation of Brno, most of them from Italy. They came to Moravia for their earnings and for the possibility of buying cheap houses abandoned in the city after plague epidemics. One of the Italians was Pietro Gabri who came to Brno with his entire family.

Pietro Gabri was responsible for the construction of the arcaded courtyard of the castle.

View the ground plan of the castle.