Poets Corner Hostel
The hostel is located right within Olomouc's stunning old town centre and offers spacious eight-bed dorms and private rooms which can be made up as doubles, twins, triples or quads. The rooms are all big and bright, and the beds all have quality mattresses and proper cotton linen. There’s also a balcony for the smokers, a kitchen for the chefs, laundry service, up-to-date listings of all the cultural events around town, a comfy common room full of armchairs and sofas and lots
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Olomouc is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic. The city is located on the Morava river and is the ecclesiastical metropolis of Moravia. The most prominent church is the St. Wenceslas cathedral. In the end of the 19th century it was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style, but it kept many parts from the original church, which had also been rebuilt many times (Romanesque crypt, Gothic cloister, Baroque chapels). The highest of its three spires is 328 ft. (image) The church neighbours with the Bishop's Palace (often incorrectly called the Přemyslid Palace), a 12th century Romanesque building. (image) The real Přemyslid Palace, i.e. the residence of Olomouc members of the governing Přemyslid Dynasty, used to stand nearby. The Jewish community began in 906, but were forced into a ghetto in 1060 and to wear a yellow badge. The expulsion order of 1454 was rescinded in 1848, after the revolution. A synagogue was built in 1897, with a Jewish population of 1,676 in 1900 and was destroyed in Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938. Gustav Mahler, composer, and Sigmund Freud lived here for a while. 800 Jewish men were arrested on March 15, 1939 and some were sent to Dachau concentration camp. In 1942-1943, the remaining Jews were sent to Theresienstadt and other concentration camps in Poland. Only 285 Jews survived the Holocaust.
