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The White Mountain - one of the
highest places in Prague (around
380 m), is named due to the mining
of the arenaceous marl and the
mines that allegedly "shined in the
far".
Next to the tram station there
is situated the Church of the
Virgin Mary the Victorious, that
is opened to the public only during
the celebrations and one hour before
their beginning. After the fight at the
White Mountain (1620) there was in
1624 built a small Chapel devoted
to St Wenceslas, in 1704-1730 it
was rebuilt as a baroque pilgrimage
Church with the dome, side cloisters
and corner Chapels devoted to
St Vojtech and St John of Nepomuk. At the opposite side there grow up
since 1628 the incomplete Convent, changed in the 17,h century into
a restaurant. Via the Chyne lane, along the family houses and the
country road we come to the dominating point - tumulus, built in
1920 by the Sokol district to the 300l h anniversary of the fight at White
Mountain. Not far from the tumulus there are the rests of the Evangelic
Cemetery, probably from 1784 that is also called Tolerant
due to the edict of the Emperor Joseph II from 1781 that legalised
also other confessions (from the tumulus we pass via
the country road down to the street Pod mohylou, Zahradní
street to the cemetery). The burials took here place for 160
years; the last one was here after the II WW. Since that time
the cemetery dilapidated as long as to 2000 when the repairs
started.
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