Sightseeings: Churches, Monasteries
The Church of St. Jiří
The Church of St. Jiří is situated in the near of the Prague castle on the square of St. Jiří. The basilica with two towers is the most well-preserved sacral architecture of the Roman style in Prague. Its today form came from the year 1142. In the main temple keel are preserved the previous arcades form the 10th and 11th century.
Prague – Loreta
Loreta is the pilgrim area, which was built at the beginning of the 18th century. Its dominanta is the tower with famous peal from the 17th century. In Loreta is saved the known loretásnký treasure.
The Church of St. Nicholas
The Church of St. Nicholas - Malá Strana
It is the baroque building, which was built on the place of the gothic church from the 13th century.
The Church of Virgin Mary
The Church of Virgin Mary – Hradčany
The previous three-aisled roman basilica with a cross ship and two towers was built in the year 1140 by a monastery. It was rebuilt to gothic and later baroque style. In the chapel of St. Voršila there is the grave of St. Norbert.
The Church of St. Thomas
The Church of St. Thomas - Malá Strana
The gothic temple was built on the place of the older roman church from the 13th century. It was rebuilt to renaissance style in the 16th century and later to baroque style. Petr Pavel Rubens painted two pictures for the church – the picture of St. Thomas and St. Augustin.
The Church of Virgin Mary before Týn
The Church of Virgin Mary before Týn - Staré Město
The gothic three-aisled building was built in the third part of the 14th century, on the place, where stood the roman mercantile church. The church was roofed in the year 1457. The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is interred here.
The Renewed Synagogue
The Renewed Synagogue - Josefov is the well known early gothic building from the 14th century. To the synagogue you go through the previous portal with a tympan, which is decorated with conventionalized vine leafs. It belongs to the oldest preserved European synagogues.
The Maislov Synagogue
The Maislov Synagogue – Josefov is the gothic revival three-aisled building from the 19th and 20th centuries. It was built by the plan of Alfréd Grotte and is named after a promoter of the famous buildings of Prague ghetto Mark Mordechajov Maislov. There is situated an exposition of silver and the others famous subjects from collections of the Jewish Museum.
The Church of St. Ludmila
The Church of St. Ludmila – Vinohrady is the gothic revival brick basilica with an expressive front and two towers. The church was built at the end of the 19th century. The tympan of the main portal is decorated by relief of Christie, St. Václav and St. Ludmila by the Josef Václav Myslbek.
The Church of St. Michael Archangel
The Church of St. Michael Archangel – Smíchov. The orthodoxy church with three small towers was built from the wood in the 18th century. The church came from Medvedovec by Mukačev in Podkarpatská Rus and to Prague was moved in the 1929. It is divided to three parts inside – for women, men and iconostasis. The church is the part of collections of the National Museum.
Strahov Monastery
After his pilgrimage to the holy land in 1138 the bishop Jindřich Zdík took hold of the idea of founding a monastery of canons regular in Prague. When the visitor enters the monastery area through the main gate from Pohořelec he sees on the left the Church of st.Rochus, now an exhibition hall. Opposite the main gate there is the entrance to the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, raised to a Basilica Minor. Strahov Library is the second oldest church librarz in Bohemia with an uninterrupted existence. It has about 200 000 volumes in its stocks, some 2 000 of which are manuscripts and 2 600 incunabulas. The oldest manuscript ist the Strahov Evangeliary, dated to 860.
Loreta
The Loreta ´s square in Hradčany belongs to the most visited places in Prague. Benigna Kateřina Lobkowicz was the founder of it in the 17th century. Her family holds the patronage on the Loreta for 300 years. The oldest object of the Loreta is the Holy shanty, which was built as the copy of the Virgin Mary ´s native house in the years 1626-1631, which was moved by angels from Nazaret to Italy to the hill Loreto. One of the seven chapels is dedicated to Virgin Mary Bolestná and on its main altar is placed the oldest Loreta ´s Pieta from the beginning of the 15th century. The favorite Loreta ´s chime is created from 30 bells of various sizes. It came from the year 1695. The chime plays every hour from the spring to the autumn.
Monastery and chateau Zbraslav
Originally a hunting lodge built Otakar Přemysl II, this chateau was constructed in the early thirteenth century. At the end of the thirteenth century Vaclav II built a monastery. At the beginning of the fifteenth century the monestery was burned down by the Hussites and was completely destroyed during the Thirty Years War. A new construction was initiated in the year 1709 under the direction of the architect J. B. Santin Aichla and builder F. M. Kaňky.
In the second decade of the eighteenth century the monestery had a change in architectual desing. In 1911 - 1913 it was remodeled further under the direction Dušan Jurkovič as a chateau for C. Bartoně Přemysl from Dobenin.