Via Sacra - For heart and soul
The Via Sacra is a church, cultural, artistic, historical and political journey. It is a tourist route on existing roads and paths and not previously signposted.
20 stations invite you to discover an extraordinary European cultural space. The Via Sacra connects outstanding sacred buildings and art treasures in the tri-national Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa and has become a must for cultural tourists from Europe and around the world. Travel without borders - through centuries - to your senses.
Living on the Via Sacra is a millennium of Central European culture. It runs along the Via Regia and other trade and pilgrimage routes through Upper Lusatia, Lower Silesia and northern Bohemia. The 20 stations exemplify the varied history of the region with its Saxon, Bohemian, Silesian and Sorbian roots. Nine stations are in German, three in Polish and eight in Czech. Criteria for the selection are from the beginning the cultural-historical rank and Schauwert, but also touristy effective superlatives. So every sacred building has something special to offer.
The following stations invite you
- Large Zittau Lenten Cloth, Small Zittau Lenten Cloth, Zittau Epitaph Treasure
- Open Air Museum Oybin Castle and Monastery
- Evangelical Brothers Unity Herrnhut
- Village church Cunewalde
- Cathedral of St. Peter with cathedral treasury
- Cistercian Abbey St. Marienstern Panschwitz-Kuckau
- Monastery church and sacral museum St. Annen (Kamenzer altars)
- Holy Sepulcher, Way of the Cross and Evangelical Church of St. Peter and Paul Görlitz
- Cistercian monastery St. Marienthal
- "Grüssau Abbey" Krzezów /Grüssau
- Monastery Broumov /Braunau
- Church Wang Karpacz /Krummhübel
- Gnadenkirche to the Holy Cross Jelenia Góra /Hirschberg
- Church Mariae Visitation Hejnice /Haindorf
- Cross church with plague column Liberec
- The Cistercian Monastery and the Coming Český Dub /Bohemian Aicha
- Chapel of St. Anna Mnichovo Hradiště /Münchengrätz
- Church of St. Lawrence Jablonné v Podještědí /German Fork
- Pilgrimage Horni Police /Oberpolitz
- Loreto Chapel Rumburk /Rumburg
Experience European history in the stories of Via Sacra.
At about 550 kilometers, the Via Sacra leads through an ancient cultural area in the middle of Europe. Stations of the Via Sacra are churches, monasteries and sacral treasures of European rank. Separate flyers are available at individual stations of the Via Sacra.
