in the Renaissance style at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. Massive fortifications are preserved around the castle. Today the castle houses the Museum of East Bohemia in Pardubice and Gallery of East Bohemia in Pardubice. The original Church of Saint Bartholomew was built in 1295 and destroyed during the Hussite Wars. The today's Church of Saint Bartholomew was built together with a monastery in 1507–1514. It was used as a burial place of the Pernštejn family. In the interior there is a valuable main altar with the painting "The Passion of St. Bartholomew" from 1692 by Michael Willmann and a painting decoration by Mikoláš Aleš. The Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary was founded by Arnošt of Pardubice before 1359. Its present late Gothic and Renaissance appearance dates from the first half of the 16th century. Until 1786, the church belonged to a Minorite monastery, from which time there are extensive underground tombs under the church. The House at Jonáš is one of the most treasured burgher houses in Pardubice. It was built after the fire that hit the city in 1507. It is known for its façade, decorated with a stucco relief from 1797, showing a biblical scene of a whale swallowing the prophet Jonah. The premises of the house are used by the Gallery of East Bohemia in Pardubice. The Zámeček Memorial is a place of reverence that commemorates execution of 194 people in 1942. The place is a national cultural monument and at its centrepiece is a granite monument dating from 1949. Notable people Gustav Gärtner (1855–1937), pathologist Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862–1934), politician, writer, and feminist František Lexa (1876–1960), Egyptologist Vilém Mathesius (1882–1945), linguist and writer Jan Kašpar (1883–1927), aviator and aircraft constructor Emil Artur Longen (1885–1936), playwright, actor and screenwriter Oskar Brázda (1887–1977), painter Emanuela Nohejlová-Prátová (1900–1995), numismatist; died here Věra Vovsová (1912–1998), painter, lived here Jan Tauc (1922–2010), Czech-American physicist Petr Haničinec (1930–2007), actor Jiří Gruša (1938–2011), poet, prose writer and translator Vladimír Nadrchal (born 1938), ice hockey player Alois Švehlík (born 1939), actor Petr Kabeš (1941–2005), poet Stanislav Prýl (1942–2015), ice hockey player Jiří Crha (born 1950), ice hockey player Otakar Janecký (born 1960), ice hockey player and coach Hynek Kmoníček (born 1962), diplomat Ivo Křen (1964–2020), graphic artist and glass art theoretician Roman Prymula (born 1964), physician, epidemiologist and politician Dominik Hašek (born 1965), ice hockey player Edita Adlerová