Benediktynske Opatstvi Svateho Vaclava s Museem Nachodska (Police nad Metují) | museum, Baroque (architecture), Gothic (architecture), monastery, listed building / architectural heritage, 13th century construction

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 museum, Baroque (architecture), Gothic (architecture), monastery, listed building / architectural heritage, 13th century construction

Benedictine monastery from the 13th century. It consists of single-store complex of baroque buildings around two rectangular courtyards, adjacent to the southern side of the monastery church. Rebuilding in its present form was started in 1676, and completed in 1772.
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a Early Gothic three-aisled basilica with an elevated pentagonal presbytery. The original south tower was demolished in 1723 and replaced by 1724 new.

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Coordinates:   50°32'18"N   16°14'6"E
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