Pilgrimage Sites in Czechia
Discover 8 sacred destinations in Czechia
Filipov
Filipov holds the basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, raised where Magdalena Kade was healed in 1866, on the German border.
Křtiny
Křtiny means baptisms. The Valley of Baptism holds Santini's largest pilgrimage church and its Gothic Madonna, 14 km from Brno.
Prague
Bohemia's thousand-year capital where the Infant Jesus draws pilgrims from across the globe, St. John of Nepomuk was martyred on Charles Bridge, and the coronation cathedral of St. Vitus still guards the relics of patron saints.
Stará Boleslav
The Elbe town where St. Wenceslaus was killed at a church door in 935, and where the Palladium of the Czech Land is venerated.
Svatá Hora
Svatá Hora above Příbram is the oldest and most important Marian pilgrimage site in Bohemia — a Baroque hilltop complex crowned by the venerated Gothic statuette of Our Lady of Svatá Hora, reached by a covered holy stairway that pilgrims have climbed on their knees for more than three centuries.
Svatý Hostýn
Moravia's most visited pilgrimage shrine crowns Hostýn hill, where the Virgin is venerated as the Victorious Protectress of Moravia.
Velehrad
Velehrad's basilica marks Methodius's traditional grave and hosts Czechia's National Pilgrimage each July for Sts. Cyril and Methodius.
Zelená Hora
Santini built this church on a five-pointed star for St. John of Nepomuk, the martyr of the confessional seal. UNESCO listed it in 1994.