Stations of the Cross
Octagonal Baroque pilgrimage chapel ringed by a covered stone arcade, with a carved stone calvary at its porch.
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This guide to the Stations of the Cross above Český Krumlov starts with the chapel's consecration on September 14, 1710, and the crowd of pilgrims it drew almost immediately. It follows Prince Johann Christian von Eggenberg's plan for a covered arcade modeled on Prague's Loreto cloister, the prince's death that stalled the project, and the sixteen years the town spent finishing the ring around the chapel on its own funds. It also traces the wooden cross said to have split into three pieces in 1658. Look at the seams in the stone where the hurried Baroque work meets the slower, later masonry.
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