Telč Telč Telč Třebíč Třebíč Třebíč Žďár nad Sázavou Žďár nad Sázavou Vysočina Region Telč Třebíč Žďár nad Sázavou Telč Telč A town that was made for artists and dreamers, a town with a touch of Italy, fragile and lovely. The handsome square with decorative façades of Gothic and Renaissance houses, delicate sgraffiti of the chateau reflected in the surfaces of town ponds, the perfect coffers on the ceilings of chateau halls, the austere beauty of the churches, sunny gardens, and the hospitable nature – even a bank clerk would start writing poetry here. Třebíč Jews and Christians together, calm and peaceful neighbours of different faiths but the same fate. That is the history of the town of Třebíč, as illustrated by its two jewels – the Basilica of St. Procopius with a monumental rose window and unique vaulted crypt that is seven hundred years old, and the Jewish quarter with more than a hundred and twenty houses, a town hall, a school and a rabbinate, synagogues and a large cemetery with some three thousand tombstones. Žďár nad Sázavou At some point in 1706, the abbot of the Žďár monastery invited the young architect Jan Santini to the town for the first time. Santini came and started working in his distinctive style, which brought him fame worldwide, the Baroque-Gothic. The pinnacle of his extraordinary inventiveness is the Church of St. John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora, a unique chapel that seems to have been sent from another world. A beauty of precise geometric splendour and lightness that is impossible to describe. It seems not like a church, but the most delicate lacework. Santini’s brilliance can also be seen in the town – the Plague Cemetery built in the shape of a human skull, the interior of a church, a horse stable, an inn, a hospital, and the monastery’s prelature. i map menu www Žďár nad Sázavou Třebíč