Loreto

This guide to Loreto in Prague centers on the treasury's prized object, a diamond-studded gold and silver monstrance known as the Prague Sun, commissioned after a countess donated her fortune in loose stones in 1795. You'll hear how Vienna's court goldsmiths spent years setting every stone to a design by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, and why armed soldiers rode alongside it the whole way to Prague. It also traces how rarely, in three centuries since, the piece has ever left its case.