Square, Plaza sights in Olomouc
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Žerotínovo Náměstí
Picturesque lanes thread northeast from Dolní nám to Žerotínovo Náměstí, named after the Žerotíns, a landowning family who set Velké Losiny's gruesome 17th-century witch trials in motion. Here you'll find the green-domed landmark of St Michael church (kostel sv Michala), with its robust baroque interior. Among the furnishings is a rare painting of a pregnant Virgin Mary. Wrapped around the entire block is an active Dominican seminary (Dominikánský klášter).
Nearby is the tiny round Chapel of St Jan Sarkander (kaple sv Jana Sarkandra) named after a local priest who died under torture in 1620 for refusing to divulge false confessions. It's built on the site of…
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Dolní Náměstí
In Dolní Náměstí the 1661 church of Annunciation of St Mary (kostel Zvěstování Panny Marie) stands out with its beautifully sober interior. Its antithesis is the opulent 16th-century Renaissance confection, the Hauenschild palace (not open to the public). The square also sports its own Marian plague column (Mariánský morový sloup), and baroque fountains dedicated to Neptune and Jupiter.
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