2 MAP Vegetable Market The most famous marketplace in Brno used to be a place of Janáček's frequent visits. He watched the busy life of many people whose spoken utterances he noted down as "speech melodies". Today, the beautiful square below Petrov is a marketplace where you can buy vegetables, fruit and flowers. The original range of products was wider and when the Upper Market was established in this place in the 13th century, it also included the Poultry, Pottery and Junk Markets. The name Vegetable Market came into being 200 years later and although it changed several times over the following centuries, it is the Vegetable Market again today. It was not only the place where vegetables and poultry were sold, but also the site of a pillory and a cage for criminals. Art also had its place here as the square has been decorated with the Parnas Fountain since the late 17th century and the Holy Trinity post from the high Baroque period stands in the upper part. The Reduta Theatre, originally a tavern, rebuilt into a Baroque theatre in the first half of the 18th century, where W. A. Mozart had a concert in 1767, is also located here. The busy life in the marketplace and its marketers from Brno and the surrounding villages became a source of inspiration for Janáček, who liked to join them to write down the melodies of their speech. He paid great attention mainly to women from Líšeň, who sold poultry in the market and whose speaking inspired Těsnohlídek and Janáček to the dialect used for the character of Harašta from The Cunning Little Vixen.