mound of peace

The Míru Mound was built on Pracké hill (324 masl), which rises in a southerly direction from the village of Prace and in a southeasterly direction from the town of Šlapanice. The mound is a monument dedicated to the memory of the dead who fell in the battle of the three emperors near Slavkov. In the years 1902-1912, an Art Nouveau monument was built here at the instigation of the Brno priest Alois Slovák. It was built out of time, as a memento to all wars by design…