Sázava Monastery, Sázava, Czech Republic

Sázava Monastery is a former Benedictine abbey and a monastery in Bohemia, established by Bretislaus I, Duke of Bohemia around 1032. It is situated some 30 km southeast of Prague, on the right bank of the eponymous Sázava river, a right tributary of the Vltava.

The monastery is notable as having followed Slavonic liturgy in the 11th century. It was re-established under the Latin rite in 1097, until its destruction in 1421 due to the Hussite Wars. It was again re-established as part of the re-catholization of Bohemia under Habsburg rule in 1664, and finally dissolved in 1785.

The extant buildings mostly date to the Baroque period, with 19th-century neo-Renaissance extensions, with some remaining structures in the Gothic style of the 13th to 14th centuries, notably the unfinished three-nave Gothic basilica.

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Tiphaine Wolter (10 months ago)
Really nice church to visit and nice monestary with older and newer parts. There are two visits, one of the monastery with explanations of old Slavic language, from what I understood, and one of the church. We only visited the church, it was a 30min visit all around the church, and we could see places we don't usually go to. The guide didn't give us any speech about the church but we had texts explaining the different places we went to and she answered all the questions we had.

Jozua Eijgenraam (10 months ago)
Amazing to see the monastery in real life! Makers of KCD made a perfect replica in game!

Benjamin Zerhusen (12 months ago)
Still not finished ;) very beautiful buildings and a cozy garden. Unfortunately I couldn't find any information in english, there was some timetable for a tour or an indoor visit, but since the signs were not in English I expected the tour to be not in English as well, so I skipped the indoor part.

Maxim Sy (14 months ago)
Beautiful Monastery, very calm and quiet place

Jiboo piu (2 years ago)
Beautiful monastery. Lots of history around it. I loved the exterior arcades (they were never finished due to the Hussite wars ). This place is protected by Saint Procopius. To visit the monastery is 5€, 120kc(sadly the guide could not speak one word of English nor any other language besides Czech). It's worth a visit

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