Massive walls of Moravian castle unearthed in the city of Prerov in the Czech Republic

Přerov plans to restore the wall to full working order, and install a replica gazebo above ground, providing a shady oasis for visitors to the Comenius Museum.
Přerov plans to restore the wall to full working order, and install a replica gazebo above ground, providing a shady oasis for visitors to the Comenius Museum. Image: palickap Wikimedia CC BY 3.0

The walls are believed to date back to Slavonic Age of nearly a millennium ago. They shed light on how royals sought to guard a medieval trade route in the Moravian Gate valley.

The discovery came during the controversial partial demolition of one dozen burgher houses dated between 15th and 16th Centuries a stone throw away from Prerov Chateau, which houses the Museum of Jan Amos Komenský – or “Comenius” – on the town’s cobbled Upper Square, atop a good-sized hill. Archaeologists knew that the museum was possibly standing on the ruins of an older castle and this discovery confirms the theory.

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