MONASTERIES IN POSÁZAVÍ

Discover monasteries in Posázaví and their importance to the region’s spiritual, cultural and economic history. Monastic sites offer historic architecture, sacred art, exhibitions and stories of religious orders and personalities who worked here over the centuries.

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Sázava cloister

Chateau | Monasteries

Zámecká 72, 285 06 Sázava - Černé Budy

The monastery was founded in 1032 by Prince Oldřich and hermit Prokop. Under the administration of the National Institute of Natural History in Prague, you can go on a sightseeing tour of Svatoprokopská Sázava. The pilgrimage site of St. Prokop under the administration of the Roman Catholic parish offers a tour of the Czech patron saint St. Prokop.

The Minority order convent

Castle ruins | Monasteries

Na Karlově 256 01 Benešov

As the chronicle written by the so called Beneš Minorita states, the Benešov Minorite Convent was established in 1247 by a provost of the Old Boleslav canonry Tobiáš of Benešov. Tobiáš was supposed to give the new community the Benešovicové family seat that was located on a promontory, nowadays known as Karlov, above the present day town. Only the remains of the pentagonal presbytery with two gothic windows were preserved.

Trappist Monastery of Our Lady on the Vltava River

Monasteries

Poličany 10, 257 56 Křečovice - Poličany

The monastery was built in Poličany by the Trappists (a Cistercian order of strict observance). Here you can attend the liturgy of the nuns in the monastery church, use the services of the guest house or shop in the shop with products of monasteries from Bohemia, Italy and France.

St. Procopius Sázava in St. Procopius Church

Monasteries

Sázavská 72, 285 06 Sázava