On the territory of the capital there is the whole range of sacral monuments of various architectural styles and religions. The Cathedral of St.Vitus,  St.Wenceslas and St.Adalbert  are the most famous sacral monument in Prague and create the characteristic Prague dominant. The Emperor Charles IV had it constructed as the central cathedral at the place of two older sanctuaries in the...

The Cathedral of St.Barbora was originated in around 1380 and belongs to the most valuable monuments of the Gothic style in Bohemia. Peter Parléř realized the construction, which was completed in 1420, when the cathedral chancel with a circle of chapels was built. Later the construction was interrupted by the Hussite wars and only after their end the construction of the cathedral continued. Among...

Velehrad belongs to the most significant pilgrimage places in Moravia. It is connected with the seat of Moravian rulers and with the place, from which Christianity has spread on the lines of the Saints Cyril and Methodius. In the neighbourhood of Velehrad there used to be the metropolitan church of St.Methodius, where he was buried. Hungarian raids destroyed Great Moravian habitations of that time,...

Třebíč is the town of uncommon religious sights; the most famous is the Roman-Gothic  Basilica of St.Procope. The abbot cathedral, originally dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was constructed since the first half of the 13th century as a part of the Benedictine monastery, which was originated in 1101 in Třebíč. The basilica suffered a lot of damage, when the Hungarian army of Matyas Corvine...

Czech nobleman Hroznata originated the monastery in Teplá as a compensation for the fact that the Pope freed him from the participation in the Third crusade. Hroznata invited the Premonstratensian monks from the Strahov monastery in Prague to come over. Later Hroznata himself became a member of the order and the caretaker of the property. One day robber-knights kidnapped him, imprisoned him and...

In 1720 the abbot of the monastery in Žďár founded the pilgrimage Church on Zelená Hora (the Green Mountain) in order to commemorate the Czech martyr and the saint Jan Nepomucký. According to the legend crown with five stars appeared above his head. That was the reason why architect Giovanni B. Santini used the symbol of pentagram for the building in the Baroque- Gothic style – the ground plan has...

Svatá Hora (the Holy Mountain) is the oldest and most important Marian place of pilgrimage in the Czech Republic. The chapel on Svatá Hora, originally a simple Early Renaissance building was built in the early 16th century. According to the tradition, Archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice is the author of the local sculpture of the Virgin Mary with the Infant from the mid- 14th century. The sculpture was...

The monumental Church of the Visitation of Our Lady on the hill Svatý Kopeček (the Holy Little Hill) is the dominant of the area. A rich wine merchant of Olomouc, Jan Andrejsek, promised to build a chapel on Svatý Kopeček, after the Holy Virgin Mary appeared in his dream. Since 1151 the Premonstratensian community acted here. The chapel, which was consecrated in 1633, was built on the territory of...

King Przemysl Otakar II donated the Broumov bulge to the Brevnov Benedictines in 1213. After the year 1322 Benedictine provostship was originated in Broumov and at the place of the Gothic castle began the construction of the Benedictine monastery. The original monastery church was built in the Gothic style and was devoted to St.Adalbert. In the cause of Hussite wars the monastery was besieged...

The Kladruby monastery is one of the oldest Czech monasteries. Prince Vladislav originated it in 1115 on the place worshiped as the centre of faith, culture and economy of the western Bohemian borderland. The Romanesque three-nave basilica was completed in the year 1233 and at that time it was the biggest in Bohemia. Even today it belongs to the three largest Czech cathedrals. In course of time the...

The Chapel of All Saints was built on the cemetery of the Cistercians monastery in Sedlec around the year 1400. Abbot Henry brought some soil from Jerusalem and spread it on the ground of the cemetery, which got the fame of the Holy Land. That was the reason why not only the local people, but also the Germans, Poles and Belgians were buried here. In 1318  thirty thousand people, who died...

The Christian faith has a thousand year tradition in the Czech lands and is linked with the beginnings of the present independent state. It is no surprise then that you can find dozens of outstanding pilgrimage sites, some of which extend well beyond the borders of the European continent in terms of their importance to believers. Take a spiritual pilgrimage through the Czech Republic in your quest for knowledge.