The Church of the Visitation, Skoky Žlutice, okres Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic GPS: 50°5’46.800″N, 13°5’49.720″E In the extinct village Skoky – Maria Stock – on-site chapel with miraculous painting of the Virgin Mary was in the years 1736 – 1738 built a large Baroque church – The […]
Bohemian Switzerland also known as Czech Switzerland, is a picturesque region in the north-western Czech Republic. It lies on the Czech side of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains north of Děčín on both sides of the Elbe River
Augustinian Monastery in Pivoň GPS: 49°29’12.042″N, 12°44’15.085″E Pivoň, Mnichov, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic Augustinian Monastery from 14th century – burned in 1421 by the Hussites in the 17th century and plundered by the Swedes. In 1785 the monastery was under the orders of Joseph II. Canceled and sold to L. […]
Chotěšov Abbey Chotěšov, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic GPS: 49°39’11.726″N, 13°11’54.945″E Chotěšov Abbey is a former Premonstratensian nunnery in Chotěšov, about 18 kilometres southwest of Pilsen in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. The abbey was founded between 1202 and 1210 by the Blessed Hroznata, whose sister Vyslava was first abbess, and settled by nuns from Doksany Abbey. The […]