Pribor

Sigmund Freud was born in Pribor on 6 May 1856 in a rented room above a locksmith's workshop, and the family left for Vienna when he was three; he came back once, at sixteen, and wrote later that the happy child of Freiberg was his first identity and that these years produced impressions he never lost. The house on Zamecnicka street was restored and opened as a memorial in 2006 for the hundred and fiftieth anniversary, with an exhibition on the birth, the family and the town as it was, though there are no original furnishings - what is there is documentary. The town itself has a long arcaded square, a Piarist college and church, and a museum with local collections. Pribor is small and quiet and the Freud connection is the reason most non-Czech visitors come; it is honest about the thinness of the material.

What you actually see

• The room he was born in - restored and opened as a memorial in 2006.
• A documentary exhibition - the family, the birth and the town as it then was.
• An arcaded square - with the Piarist college and church.
• Three years and one return visit - the whole of his connection to the place.

When to go

April to October. Half a day.

Honest expectations

There are no original furnishings - the birthplace is documentary rather than atmospheric. Closed Mondays. The town is small; an hour or two covers everything.

Nearby

Stramberk and Koprivnice are south; Ostrava is north-east.