Winners of Monument of the Year announced

The town of Mníšek pod Brdy, near Prague, and the Solnice restaurant in Česke Budějovice both received awards in the Monument of the Year competition on Thursday.

Mníšek pod Brdy won the award for its restoration of 14 chapels of the Stations of the Cross and the road to the Baroque Skalka complex in the category of smaller restorations of up to two million crowns. The award in the category of larger reconstructions worth over two million crowns, was awarded to the Solnice restaurant and brewery, the result of an impressive reconstruction of a late Gothic building that used to serve as a salt warehouse.

The competition organized by the Association of Historic Settlements of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia aims to highlight the best design and renovation of a building or set of buildings that have significant architectural or urban value, but need not have the status of a cultural monument.