Our Lady of the Snows
The Church of Our Lady of the Snows, known in Czech as Panny Marie Sněžné, is a Gothic gem founded in 1347 to mark the coronation of Emperor Charles IV and his queen Blanche of Valois. Near Jungmannovo náměstí, the church survives as a fragment of its once-grand plan: the current appearance is largely the presbytery, with the structure never completed to the scale originally imagined. In the 14th–17th centuries, the complex passed through several hands and suffered from wars and shortages of funds, a common fate for ambitious medieval projects. The Carmelite foundation, long linked to royal patronage, faced disruption during the Hussite conflicts, and the church later came under the Friars Minor, under Rudolf II in the early 17th century. …
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