The Broumov region is packed with Baroque monuments and beautiful architecture, and also boasts some extremely valuable cultural heritage. There are two urban conservation zones, the towns of Broumov and Police nad Metují, a village conservation reserve in Křinice, two Benedictine monasteries - in Broumov and in Police nad Metují, the oldest wooden church in Bohemia, exhibition Broumov-type brick farmsteads, dozens of chapels, Stations of the Cross and hundreds of sandstone sculptures and crosses of exceptional artistic value, located in the various villages as well as out in the open countryside.
The most important heritage sights include the Broumov group of churches, which were recently declared a national cultural monument.
History of the monastery The monastery was founded in the 13th century after Ottokar I of Bohemia donated the local estate to the monks of the Order of St. Benedict. In
The appearance of the monastery we see today is the result of renovation work carried out during the High Baroque period. In 1726, Abbot Zinke approved the complete demolition
The cemetery church is one of Central Europe’s oldest wooden sacral buildings and boasts some remarkable architecture and interior paintings. We know nothing about what the church originally looked like,
The Břevnov monastery tradition has it that, in the early 13th century, Abbot Kuno sent the Rajhrad monk Juryk (or Jurik) to the area of what is now
The Church of St. Peter and Paul can be found on the church square. The church was probably built at the time the town was founded back in the 13th
Discover the Baroque treasures of the Broumov region. The group of 18th-century Baroque churches designed by the architects Christoph and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer are rightly thought of as the Baroque
The Church of St. Procopius in Bezděkov was built in 1724-27 according to the project of Kilian Ignác Dienzenhofer. The village of Bezděkov is the only one that is no longer
The original church in Božanov is mentioned in the oldest sources as early as the 14th century and was dedicated to St. Bartholomew. The construction of the new church of St.
The parish church of St. Michael the Archangel is a dominant feature of the village of Vernéřovice. It stands on a hill in the middle of the village on the
The Church of St. George and St. Martin stands on a hill above the Stěnava River in the middle of the cemetery. Previously, a wooden church stood on its
As early as the 14th century, a wooden church of St. John the Evangelist stood in the centre of the village, on the site of which a neo-Gothic
The Church of St. James the Greater stands on the site of the original wooden church, which was first mentioned in 1386. According to preserved sources, the construction
The Church of All Saints stands on a slight hill in the middle of the cemetery above the village and dominates the surrounding landscape. Since the 14th century there was
The original wooden church in Vižňov is mentioned in the oldest sources as early as the first half of the 14th century. Until the Thirty Years' War it was a
Originally, a wooden chapel stood on the site of St. Barbara's Church. The surviving building accounts show that the construction of the new church, designed by Kryštof Dientzenhofer,
The smallest Baroque church of K. I. Dientzenhofer in the Broumov region.
Hvězda is probably the most visited place at Broumovské Stěny and an important crossroads for hiking trails. A baroque stone chapel with a star-shaped ground plan, the work of
The church was founded by Abbot Martin I and built in 1253-1294, together with the Benedictine monastery in Břevnov. It was built in the Cistercian-Burgundian style, in the
During the 15th century, the fortress of the Lords of Berka of Dubá used to stand on the site of what is now the chateau. The first major reconstruction
The original green chapel was built in Ticháček Forest in 1897, on the site of the visions of the Virgin Mary that appeared to Kristina Ringlová here in 1892-1895.
The Marian Column stands in the middle of Mírové náměstí in Broumov. Otmar Zinke, the abbot of the Broumov monastery, had the column erected in 1706 as a
The Baroque Bischofstein Chateau is located on the outskirts of the village of Skály, in a forest near Teplice nad Metují. It is surrounded by sandstone cliffs with a
From the mid-13th century onwards, colonists arrived in the regions of Teplice and Broumov, mainly from Thuringia, bringing a specific type of farmstead known as the "Frankish
The Cross of Reconciliation on Buková Mountain - a memorial dedicated to the victims of national disputes in the Broumov region built as a message of tolerance, non-violence and