Church Of St Giles

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  • Address
    cnr Zlatá & Husova, Staré Město
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  • Transport
    tram: 6, 9, 18, 21, 22, 23

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Lonely Planet review

With stocky Romanesque columns, tall Gothic windows, and an exuberant baroque interior, St Giles is a good place to ponder the architectural development of Prague's religious buildings. The church was founded in 1371. The proto-Hussite reformer Jan Milíč of Kroměříž preached here before the Bethlehem Chapel was built. The Dominicans gained possession during the Counter-Reformation, built a cloister next door and 'baroquefied' it in the 1730s. Václav Reiner, the Czech painter who created the ceiling frescoes, is buried here.