From Pražák’s point of view, the biggest shortcoming of Brno is the non-existence of an underground railway. Metro. One of its creators was Brňák. Without him, the people of Prague would only use overhead public transport.

The mutual scoring of both metropolises (Prague is nationwide, Brno is Moravian or South Moravian) is mostly reflected in the activities of two Facebook institutes. One is the Prague Institute for the Insult of Brno and the other, as usual, the Brno Institute for the Insult of Prague. Fans of both famous cities do not give themselves a penny of cyberspace for free.

We decided to give space to both sides. Neither the overgrown stadium of the once first-league Zbrojovka Brno nor the Prague-based Eden became their hotbed. We tried to find one Praguer who loves Brno and one person from Brno who admires Prague.

Experienced editorial bookmakers have argued that finding such exotics who professed their feelings for the other city on Valentine’s Day was tantamount to winning a first-league title in Spartan.

The truth is that none of the found is, as the Slovaks say, a trustworthy Pražák or Brňák. However, everyone has found a home in one of these cities, but they do not forget the beauty under Prague Castle and Špilberk. Therefore, take their Valentine’s faith as, for example, a hypothetical reconciliation to the deaths of the unmoved Přemyslids and Slavníks.

I envy Prague residents, I also like the pubs in Nusle

Prague or Brno? An eternal dilemma for me. When I lived in Prague, I missed Brno. Now I live in Brno and I miss Prague again.

Sometimes I think that maybe I’m not alone in that, because the trains and D1 are still full of people commuting between the two cities.

I know Brňáky who claim that the most beautiful thing in Prague is that they can return to Brno from it. I also know Praguers who have never been to Brno.

Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Princess Libuše was already telling her fame. It has its charm at all times of the year and day, and the view of the Hradčany panorama does not get bored from any angle or from the tram window. Although the most beautiful is the early morning or February, when it is not season and the biggest influx of tourists will drop.

Compared to Brno, Prague is ahead of time, not only has more monuments, theaters or the metro, but it also has a river. The Vltava is such a Prague sea with islands, a river, boats, boats, flocks of swans and pedal boats. The river balances and calms the hectic life in the city. And even though two rivers flow through Brno, it still lacks a floodplain.

What I like most about Prague is that there is still something to discover. Whether it is the streets and nooks in the historic center itself, the café in Letná, the pubs in Nusle, or the housing estate in Čerňák. You can always find a place you haven’t been that is unexpected. It has so many diverse parts that it’s like living in multiple cities at the same time. Some parts even resemble Brno.

Discovering Prague is a lifelong love that is not exhausted. Still, it’s not as large as London or New York, but big enough for you to get lost in it comfortably. It is a city of thousands of possibilities. Everyone will find something for themselves in Prague.

The Confession of Prague was written by Jana Běhalová, who lives in Brno and works there in the office of the architect of the city of Brno.

The Brno Patriotism is as strong as Chernobyl radioactivity

In Prague, Brno is called the last turn before Vienna. But only the mule does not slow down here and does not fall out of the daily hustle and bustle for a while. Not spending at least one day in Brno is the same sin as at least once in my life at the Prague S derby.

Having already mentioned Vienna, in the former capital of the monarchy, it amazes me how Viennese and Brno architects described themselves in a number of places. How many times has it happened to me in Vienna: “Look, I know this from somewhere, well, from Brno!”

On my first visit to Brno, I was fascinated by the two names of the local districts: Brno-Komín and Brno-Žabovřesky. Where are they going to Prague’s Hrdlořezy. I always imagined the chimney as a tall skyscraper in the shape of a chimney. I was disappointed when I discovered that people live there the same as in Židenice.

I also “admire” some Brno politicians. I cheered for the ecologist, who became a councilor and then drove tens of thousands of kilometers in company cars. It is fun not only in Brno thanks to the actor Bolek Polívka.

What I really love is the patriotism of the people of Brno. Pražák is exalted above all else, everything to the east of Horní Počernice is Asia for him. Pražák will never achieve the pride that can be measured in Brno as the radioactivity of the Chernobyl reactor just after the explosion. Of course, the people of Brno also migrate west to the capital, but mostly it’s back.

Brno is pleasant only because it is also (like Prague) hilly. A church on one hill and a prison on the other. And in the meantime, various nooks and crannies, neighborhoods with narrow streets and exhibition villas, especially the Tugendhat, we can envy the Brňák family. In a way, it’s all in the palm of your hand and on a pen, you can cross Brno or cycle like a dup. Although there are no medieval castles, there is no huge river flowing through the city center, but you can always turn off the main streets and you will find yourself in another, sometimes lost world of the eighties, sixties, here and there before the war. I also like Kraví hora (already because I know another one near Znojmo and there are wonderful grapes born there), because we don’t have it here in Prague and no battle has taken place like the one in Bílá.

But I love Brno not because of Jurkovič’s villas and the amazing First Republic halls at the fairgrounds. As Ivan Mládek sings: it is healthy to go to Brno to see the girls, because they will reveal all the secrets of Brno to you. They will introduce you to strange and amazing people and take you through an unprecedented tangle of more or less hidden galleries, cafes where everyone knows each other. Sometimes he talks like in a Prague café, and that’s nice for every Praguer.

Pavel Hrabica, who lives in Prague but is a native of Jihlava, which is 120 kilometers closer to Brno than to Prague, came out of his admiration for Brno.