Church of St. John the Baptist - Radomyšl
Thanks to its location, this pilgrimage church forms a distinctive landmark of the entire region. It beautifully complements the landscape around Radomyšl and watches over the local life like a guardian angel. The view from the church is breathtaking. In spring, the picturesque landscape turns into a strawberry paradise.
Accessibility
Open all year round
Entrance fee
Free entrance
How to get there
Local parking available
Additional information
On the hill southeast of Radomyšl, there was likely a chapel of St. John since the Middle Ages, located near a miraculous spring. In 1560, the chapel was replaced by a church, funded by the local priest Mikuláš Křížek. The church was possibly surrounded by an arcade and five chapels, and by 1610, an adjacent hermitage and cemetery had been added. The present-day church was built between 1733 and 1736 under Grand Prior Gundakar Popp of Dietrichstein by Anselmo Lurago, based on the design of builder and architect Bartolomeo Scotti, who was known as the chief fortification architect of Prague’s city walls.
The Way of the Cross begins at the south side of the deanery church in Radomyšl, leading through the dam of Vraždy Pond and climbing up a linden alley towards the pilgrimage church of St. John. The uniformly built granite chapels with classicist elements, gables with spheres and crosses, were erected in 1762, according to an inscription on the second chapel on the northern side of the deanery church. The current paintings on metal plates with lockable iron doors were created in the second half of the 19th century by painter Václav Ševele.
The Church of St. John the Baptist also appeared in the fairy tale The Princess from the Mill.
A Jewish cemetery is hidden in the nearby forest.
