Trebic, a Czech town about an hour's drive from Brno, remarkably has two quite different UNESCO World Heritage Sites: St. Procopius Basilica and the Jewish Quarter.
St. Procopius Basilica is a Romanesque-Gothic Christian church built in 1240-1280.
Perhaps the most striking of the buildings in the Jewish Quarter per se is the synagogue, no longer used (there are no longer any Jews living in Trebic), but notable for the unique combination of words and images painted on its walls.
The large and attractive Jewish Cemetery - undamaged by vandalism unlike virtually all other such cemeteries in central and eastern Europe - is also part of the UNESCO site, although it lies outside the boundaries of the Jewish Quarter proper.
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