Prague and its surroundings

March 2020 Czechia Amazing place of Czechia

Because the situation was and is as it is, travel is largely limited to the vicinity of your place of residence. Even so, or rather because of that, it was finally possible to look at places that there was no time or taste in recent years and thus remained unvisited, even though they are in fact very interesting.

In addition to Prague itself, it is, for example, the former Řepora Open-Air Museum in Řeporyje and the Church of St. Jan and Pavel near Třebonice.

Řepora (formerly called Tuležim) is an open-air museum in the outskirts of Prague, which tries to evoke the most faithful idea of Czech folk architecture of the 14th century and life in a medieval town. There are many buildings in the open-air museum; a church with a cemetery, a mayor's homestead with a tavern, blacksmith's, potter's and homemakers' homesteads, a covered market, a well, a prank, entrance gates and towers, palisades, etc. These buildings were built with period technologies.

The Romanesque church of St. John and Paul with a cemetery is located on the site of the defunct village of Krteň in the cadastral area of Třebonice (Prague 13) in Prague, between Stodůlky and Třebonice (south of the settlement of Chaby). The church was built in the late Romanesque style in the 2nd quarter of the 13th century with a rectangular presbytery and a front square tower. The church still forms an impressive dominant feature of the landscape. At present, a solemn pilgrimage mass is celebrated in the church once a year, in June.