Basilica of St. Wenceslas

The Romanesque church of St. Klementa is located in the immediate vicinity of the Basilica of St. Wenceslas. It is the oldest building of Stará Boleslav, which has been preserved until today in an almost unchanged form and belongs to the oldest church buildings in the Czech lands. The church acquired its present form in the third quarter of the 12th century, but it is an older foundation dating from the 11th century, which was preceded by a wooden building possibly dating from the 10th century.

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was founded at the beginning of the 17th century and is the oldest Marian pilgrimage site in the Czech Republic. The present church replaced the older Gothic building, which was not big enough for the growing number of pilgrims. It was built according to the plans of the Italian architect Giovanni Maria Filippi, under the direction of Jakub de Vaccani in the years 1613-1625, in the style of early Baroque Roman churches.

Its foundation stone was laid in 1854 in the presence of Emperor Francis Joseph I, a tribute to the support of the Habsburg monarchy by the First Congress of Panslav in Prague as a political formation that is most likely to protect the peoples of Central Europe.