st. kopacek church and monastery

Although we cheated (hired a car) bus 11 takes you very near the church (and you get to see the countryside too!).The church is extremely ornate and impressive - and just when I thought I was churched out!The view is spectacular and it is a lovely walk around the area.

The basilica is a 15-minute drive outside of the center of Olomouc. It is situated on top of the Holy Hill. When dark, the basilica is visible the moment you leave Olomouc city and keeps on getting bigger until you get to the top of the hill. You can also do the last piece of the pilgrimage. Instead of following the road, you start at the foot of the hill and walk straight up to the entrance of the basilica. It's worth the travel outside of the city and you have wonderful views on the surroundings. And once you've seen the basilica, it's a 5-minute walk to Olomouc zoo.

Friends from Olomouc took us to the Basilica. It's a scenic ride through the countryside and the church on Holy Hill is visible from a distance. It's a beautiful church, well worth your time. Views from the top of the hill are breathtaking.

The Basilica is on a hill top a few miles outside Olomouc. It really is a great location, with lovely views over the countryside. The church is quite atmospheric inside. There's not much else to do in the village - when I visited in December the cafes and zoo weren't open.You can get there on bus 11 from the train station - takes about 20 mins, runs several times an hour.

Svatý Kopeček is a historic city, urban area in the northeast of the City Olomouc. This significant natural dominant of Olomouc is used as a recreational place of Olomouc and since 1952 there is the Olomouc ZOO. The Holy Hill is primarily the monumental Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary.The history of the pilgrimage place on the Saint Hill begins in the 17th century, during the Thirty Years War in Europe. Jan Andrysek, a wine dealer, promised that when he got rich he would build a church for the Virgin Mary. He forgot this, but the Virgin Mary appeared to him in his dreams. One day he was in a snowstorm that stopped just as he got on a hill. It was the place from his dream and he remembered his promise. He marked this place and went home, where he found that the owners of this place were premonsterates, a church order of monks. The church was built in the 17th and early 18th century, in the Baroque style. The 'Holy stairs' in front of the church, leading towards an alley of old trees in the direction to the city serve us as a reminder of 28 stairs in the Pilatus´s Jerusalem palace, which Jesus had to climb before his sentence to death. John Paul II honoured Svatý Kopeček by his visit in 1995, and in the same year the Church of the Visitation of Our Lady was given the title “basilica minor”. The monumental Church of the Visitation of Our Lady is the main attraction here, and rightly so.Exhibition of nativity scenes-300 nativity scenes from different materials can be seen in the matrix may svatokopecké at Holy Hill. The museum can be found in the cloisters of the basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.A trip to the monumental pilgrimage church at Svatý Kopeček offers a superb view of the town and the fertile Haná plain.The main pilgrimage: Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (31.5),

The place is worth visiting even if you have just two days for Olomouc and its surroundings. Phone in advance to arrange for a guide; if they have time, they are willing to show places normally closed to visitors. Excellent location on top of a hill with excellent view ( come on a bright day!)

A historical church and monastery located on a hill overlooking the city. The surrounding grounds are well kept, and lovely to take a stroll and discover little gems.

Although Svaty Kopecek - Trip Adviosior PLEASE, correct the awful mistakes in many Czech indication, including this one!!!, is cca 10 kms outside of town, please, count in 2 or 3 hours to visit the place. You may easily reach it with town bus heading for the ZOO, Radikov, Losov. The church is a baroque jewel with magnificent frescas painted by Johann Krystof Haendke who was born in my home town Rymarov, about 45 kms north. By the way, come and see his early frescas in our Chapel V Lipkach. You furthermore may see his frescas in Olomouc churches and in the chapel of the Velke Losiny Chateau nearby Sumperk. Furthermore, the nicest views of Hana and of Olomouc are from this church. The meadow in the front of the church is also nice to take a blanket with, lie down and study or read a book. This is what students sometimes do, and I also used to do it.

very nice place, historical, ancient, one feels history when entering

This makes for a lovely half- to whole-day trip out of Olomouc, and especially on a nice, sunny day you get great views of the city and its surroundings. The monumental Church of the Visitation of Our Lady is the main attraction here, and rightly so.The church was built in the 17th and early 18th century, in the Baroque style. The 'Holy stairs' in front of the church, leading towards an alley of old trees in the direction to the city serve us as a reminder of 28 stairs in the Pilatus´s Jerusalem palace, which Jesus had to climb before his sentence to death. John Paul II honoured Svatý Kopeček by his visit in 1995, and in the same year the Church of the Visitation of Our Lady was given the title “basilica minor”. There is also a ZOO (with almost 300 kinds of animals, incl. a famous ''bat house'' and a viewing tower) not too far from here - a plus if you have kids with you, and the forests around the village provide for a lovely walk, in case you had enough of man and his world.

Kousek od Olomouce se na kopci tyčí krásná památka, která rozhodně stojí za návštěvu. Kousek od Sv. Kopečku je i vynikající cukrárna.

Nádherná stavba na místě s krásným rozhledem, už dlouho jsem si přála tuto památku navštívit. Zajímavé je i okolí, např. dům Jiřího Wolkera.