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svatý Jiří

Czechia

The Church of St George in Hradsko sits high, and that is the first thing to understand about it. It stands on a prominent rise above the Kokořínský důl, the Kokořín valley, on the site of a former hillfort, a hradiště, so the ground beneath it was chosen and fortified long before the present walls went up. What you see is a Roman Catholic filial church in the pseudo-Gothic style, a building the source describes as rebuilt several times over its history, and protected as a cultural monument since 1966.

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