The Teplá Monastery
The Teplá Monastery is one of the nearly thirty large monasteries founded in Bohemia during the 12th century, but it is probably the only one existing thanks to a lucky chance. If we believe an old story, we must even admit that it owes its foundation to a simple human failure, to the fear of a man of an unknown natural element. This man was the Bohemian lord Hroznata who had to take part in the third crusade but still before leaving the Italian shore he was struck by panic when seeing the rough sea and he did not even enter the ship…
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