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St. Stephen´s Church with the bell tower

Kouřim

For seven and a half centuries, St. Stephen’s, the First Martyr’s, Church in Kouřim is an architectural as well as spiritual dominant of the town.

History of St. Stephen’s Church dates back to the very beginning of Kouřim’s history. The exact time of its foundation is still unknown. Remains of reused Romanesque blocks were found in the masonry of the building, which most probably came from the building of the older church. It existed even before the foundation of the medieval town, the oldest written record of which dates back to 1261.

After 1270, the main and south naves were fully completed, and it was probably not until the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries that the top floors of both towers were erected. Medieval history of St. Stephen’s Church is not sufficiently known due to the lack of extant written sources. The oldest surviving record of it dates back to 1334, when the building was damaged by a fire that engulfed the entire town. At the beginning of the 15th century the interior was decorated with valuable wall paintings. ,

For more information about the church and its opening hours, visit the website.

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Museum of folk architecture

The Museum of Folk Architecture in Kouřim is the only open-air museum not focused on a single region in the Czech Republic, which collects construction monuments from the territory of Central, Eastern and Northern Bohemia, thus offering a direct comparison of various regional types of folk architecture from the 17th to the 19th century. There are fourteen larger residential and farm buildings, which are complemented by several smaller monuments.

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St. Barbara´s Cathedral

St. Barbara’s Cathedral, a jewel of late Gothic architecture and one of only four cathedral-type buildings in Bohemia, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist as well as the historic centre of Kutná Hora.

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The Kolín Synagogue

The Kolín synagogue is the largest synagogue built in the Czech Republic until the 18th century, and outside of Prague it is the oldest and most valuable monument of its kind in the country. It was built on the site of an older wooden house of prayer as early as the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. The inscription of a date on the memorial stone inserted into the eastern façade is the evidence. –

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