📍 Klášter Želiv

About the venue

The Premonstratensian monastery in Želiv was founded in 1139 by Prince Soběslav I, and has been home to Premonstratensians since 1149. After a fire in 1712, Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel rebuilt it in his distinctive Baroque Gothic style. In the 1950s the complex served as an internment camp for 464 clergy; today it is a national cultural monument with guided tours, a monastery brewery, hotel and restaurant.