Hodonín - Masaryk's birthplace

The first Czechoslovak president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, was born in Hodonín on March 7, 1850. Unfortunately, Masaryk's birthplace has not survived. It was located in the place where the building of the Secondary Industrial and Art School stands today in Dobrovského street No. 6. It was built as a boarding school for students of the German real school. Construction of the building began in March 1898 and was completed a year later. In memory of…