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klášter voršilek

Czechia

You enter the Ursuline convent the way the sisters intended: from Ostrovní Street, across a courtyard, through what was once the fortna, the porter's gate. A side service entrance on Národní třída leads in through the lodge of the Endocrinology Institute, which tells you something about this building before you have seen a single vault. It is a Baroque complex of two courtyards, a garden and a school, wrapped around the Church of St Ursula, and for more than three centuries it has been shared, confiscated, returned and rented out.

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