The most beautiful shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit Prague

This important place of pilgrimage was built between 1626 and 1750. The main facade (baroque in inspiration) is the work of the Dientzenhofer family, is of great harmony. The horizontal and vertical lines that compose it are a perfect balance game. Its tower houses a set of twenty-seven bells that play a very soft melody every hour for several minutes.

Inside, the sanctuary, also called "Santa Casa", is according to legend one of the houses of Nazareth that the angels deposited all over the world. There are more than fifty "Santa Casa" in Bohemia, but the most famous is the Santa Casa de Loreto in Italy. The Prague one was built by G.-B. Orsi at the beginning of the 17th century. Its stuccoes were of course made by Italian craftsmen: we will see the remains of the old frescoes, a statue of the Madonna in cedar wood and a silver altar.

Go directly to the first floor of the cloister: it is here that the "Prague Sun", a dazzling golden monstrance with more than 6,000 flaming diamonds, is kept in the Treasury room. All these jewels are a gift from Countess Ludmilla Eva von Kolowrat, who had wished to see her jewellery so assembled after her death. The work was designed by the Viennese architect Fischer von Erlach. Masses in Loreta are held on Saturdays at 7:30 am, Sundays at 6 pm, and at 8:30 am on holidays and at 6:30 pm on weekdays.