The former Cistercian monastery at Plasy, 20 km north of Pilsen, was founded in 1144 by Prince Vladislav II as the first royal endowment of the order in Bohemia. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was rebuilt into its present high-Baroque form by architects Jean Baptiste Mathey, Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel and Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer. The convent building rests on more than 5,100 oak piles driven into the waterlogged floodplain of the Střela river - an ingenious water system keeps the foundations stable to this day. From 1826 the complex served as the residence of Chancellor Metternich; since 1995 it has been a national cultural monument administered by the National Heritage Institute.
Pivovarská 1, 331 01 Plasy
😴 Nothing scheduled here in the near future.
