Oneness and originality of southern parts of Slovácko is sill featured by here and there preserved folk architecture, which is particulary represented by farmers´ and small holders´houses.
Wood from the alluvial forests wasn´t suitable for building, there was no stone, but people here could always count on enough good brick clay. Therefore, the farm-houses were made of unfi red bricks until the 1st World War, the bricks dried in the sun only („kotovice“), were also known as „adobe brick“, as in to the mixture of clay and chaff was pig hair added. Characteristic sign of Slovácko´s houses are an ancient thatched roofs, which are often covered with houseleek to protect the house against lightning, but in the last century, it was fully replaced by the red covering of burnt bricks. Buildings were turned into the street with facades and passers-by were attracted by picturesque and richly fl owering beds of ancient cabbage- roses, dahlias, white lilies, mauve roses, asters, rosemary, mint and sage. Hallmark of folksiness was then provided by traditional wooden fence from the decoratively carved laths. In the middle of front garden there used to be and here and there still is situated a short corridor leading to the main door, where on the wooden benches under the grape-vines grannies with kerchiefs often sit. Most captivated always was and still is the interchangeable facade of building in lower Slovácko, namely white lime plaster regularly and carefully renovated, blue skirtin board, and especially with love and with taste decorated leeward. Also bricked parts, sometimes called „žebráčny“, which were added to main door. Here the skills of Slovácko´s women painters focused on, in colorful paints and in a range of plant ornaments and leeward become a display of housekeeper – of lady of the house.
In addition to residential buildings, an important elements of still preserved architecture of the region are wine-growing buildings, such as wine cellars and winepress winepress houses called „búdy“, and especially smaller sacral objects, so the chapels, calvaries, tributes.
In Dolní Bojanovice you will be impressed with Slovácko´s Cottage - House No. 217,which is a historically protected building from the beginning of the 19th century and it acquired its present form about a hundred years later. Exterior of the cottage is dominated by typical leeward, decorated with ornaments of plant motives (apples, tulips, grapes and vine) made by early died woman painter Hedvika Fukalíková. Since 1996, the object is managed by the local Museum association. When visitng the interior, you will get a comment on the original interior lay-out and on the equipment of typical rustic building of the 19th century and at the same time you will become familiar with a rich history of local folk costumes and of annual customes. Enrichment of the tour is a newly discovered and previously made accesible, well from 1901. The so-called „Old letty“, building no. 166 in Lužice was refl ected in the archival material for the fi rst time in 1828, but as evidenced by its name, its own history goes back to the mid-18th century. The building served as a comfortable base for the imperial offi cers in the time of the mandatory housing of troops in the villages and later for a variety of municipal needs. Only activity of the local Museum associ- ation in Lužice saved it from the planned demolition and its major reconstruction was completed in 2009. The interior of this important monument of folk architecture presents the visitors not only with permanent exhibition of housing at the turn of the 19th and 20 century, an exten sive collection of agricultural tools and objects, but also with occasional exhibitions on the history of the village and thematic exhibitions of annual customes (vintage, Christmas and Easter holidays), supplemented by examples of folk craft-making.
Historically protected building no. 155 in Lanžhot, stands on the village square neer to the church and inside, there is located a municipal museum. It offers one of the last examples of well maintained farmer house. The antiquity is emphasized with colorfuly painted facade with typical leeward with ornamental wall paintings, wooden fence and even the traditional arrangement inside the building. There is an exposure of folk housing in Podluží, with a unique painted rustic furniture, original wooden frame-work and numerous collections of folk costumes. The house has a rampart, where large agricultural tract of examples of farming items and tools starts and is fi nished with garden – back-yard. Visitors of the village Mikulčice will be attracted by very picturesque image that is created by the renovated and with Podluží ornaments decorated chapel of St. Roch, with renewed cemetery wall and putation at the time of great famine and plague, which affected the local region, while the rescue was said to be a rich trader saint called Roch, who brought number of wagons of grain and bread. However, truer dedication is to contemporary saint called Roch, the patron of cholera vineyards, dividing the upper and lower part.
The existence of the fi rst winegrowing facilities at this site was recorded in the cadastral maps in the second half of the 18th century. In the last century, especially lower Nechory, expanded to its present form of broken terrain of the village with square, streets, with now numbering about 400 of wine- cellars and winepress houses. Some of them were for its real value declared as a cultural monument Fine design of most of the cellars and either winepress houses is based on local traditions – whitened walls, colorured skirting board and simple ornaments from Podluží. The latest constructions are in the name of ordinary winepress houses with a residential fl oor, used for social and commercial purposes. Late Baroque sacral building of Calvary in Tvrdonice, which is currently situated in the middle of the village, built at their own expenses people of Tvrdonice as a manifestation of thanksgiving for the end of the plague epidemic in 1760. Trihedral shape symbolizes the divine Trinity and belonging to architecture of Podluží reveals blue skirting board, lime walls and red ceramic roofi ng. Very stylish example of folk art is a decorative painting with typical ornaments of- garnet apples, hearts and carnations. Color decoration is regularly renewed before ethnographic celebration „Podluží in songs and dances“ in June. The side wall niches of Calvary contain oil paintings on the metal plates, namely picture of St. Florian as the guardian against fi re and St. Vendelín, patron of cowboy. Picture of the Virgin Mary Šaštínská then reminds of the nearby popular pilgrimage site in Slovakia.
