Přemysl Palace

Pride of place goes to the remnants of the early 12th-century Přemysl Palace, originally built for Bishop Jindřich Zdík. A detailed English text walks you through a cloister with 15th and 16th century frescoes on the original walls up to the archaeological centrepiece, the bishops' rooms with their Romanesque walls and windows (rediscovered in 1867), and artistry unequalled elsewhere in the Czech Republic, even in Prague castle.

Downstairs, surviving 16th century frescoes in the chapel of St John the Baptist (kaple sv Jana Křtitele), completed in 1262, include angels with instruments of torture (a sign of ecclesiastical approval?). To the left of the palace is the St Anne chapel (kaple sv Anny), and beyond that are the long, yellow walls of the former deanery where Wenceslas III, the last of the Přemysl line, was mysteriously assassinated in 1306. This building is now part of Palacký University.