The Stojan Gymnasium is housed in a complex of historic monastery buildings. In the information centre, it is possible to arrange a tour of the Baroque Sala Terrena and the Slavic Hall, which are also located in the former monastery.
This site is part of the European Cultural Itinerary of Saints Cyril and Methodius. More information: https://www.cyril-methodius.cz/velehrad/
Velehrad is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in the Czech Republic. Its heart is the Baroque Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saints Cyril and Methodius. Its history began more than 800 years ago. Under the basilica, there is a lapidarium with historical remains of the original Romanesque monastery.
"Cyrilka" was built in the 13th century at the monastery gate for the pre-monastery inhabitants. It fell into disrepair in the 19th and was restored in the neo-Gothic style on the occasion of the Jubilee of Cyril and Methodius in 1863. In the first half of the 20th century, services were celebrated here in the Byzantine-Slavic rite.
The Chapel of St. Barbara, popularly called Barborka, stands on the site of a former early Gothic church dedicated to the same patroness. The chapel served mainly as a family tomb for the owners of the Buchlov estate, but the judges of the hunting law and hermits of the Order of St. Francis are also buried here.
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