National Gallery Prague - Convent of St. Agnes
Gothic convent founded by a princess-turned-nun, now a medieval art gallery in stone cloisters by the river.
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This guide to the Convent of St. Agnes in Prague traces Agnes of Bohemia, the princess who declined marriages to a king and an emperor to found this riverside monastery around 1233, in what became Bohemia's first Gothic building. It follows the convent through the Hussite wars, its dissolution under Joseph II, and an unlikely later use as a chicory factory inside the old royal mausoleum. You'll also hear about the ceremony that made Agnes a saint centuries later. Wander the stone cloisters and look for where the medieval art collection now hangs.
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