Semilasso is the nom-de-plume

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adopted by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871), a famous German traveller and landscape gardener, for his autobiographical

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 travel books.

It is also the name of a Cultural Centre in the Královo pole

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 district of Brno

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, Czech Republic

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, which takes its name from the former public house

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"U semilassa", once known as the "Schaffgotschův hostinec", which was renamed about 1836 in tribute to Pückler-Muskau.