Sightseeing

Besides the castle, other places are worth seeing, too. Below you can see some of them.

You can view constructions and buildings ranging from
medieval walls

stone bridges and pavement

through 18-th century cottages

18-century houses

renaissance burghers' houses

and renewed baroque buildings

or classicist fronts

to most recent blocks of flats.

These places are beautiful not only in the summer tourist season, but have their charm during winter period as well.

Panoramatic images of Opocno Click to see more

Holy Trinity Church

Trckovo namesti
Three nave church built on the basements of St. Andrew Chapel from 15th century.
Rebuilt in renaissance style about 1567 by Vilem Trcka z Lipy and about 1716 by G. B. Alliprandi.
Paintings of Sts. Vaclav, Ludmila and Jan z Nepomuku.
In the right tower bells Kliment and Vaclav.
Grave-stones from 16th century.

Virgin Maria Church
Kodymova ulice
First mentioned in 1348, 1393 burnt out, in 1425 destroyed by Sirotek (Hussite) army.
Replaced by a log construction (mentioned 1598).
Re-erected in the first half of 17th century.
In 1810 reconstructed by Rudolph Colloredo-Mansfeld, with tomb of Colloredo-Mansfeld family under the building.
Further reconstructions in 1882-84, pictures on glass windows.

1972 bought by the town to be used as threnodial room.
1985 reconstruction broken unfinished.
1990 the Greek-catholic parish does not insist on retrocession of this estate
Decision to rebuilt to a concert hall, finished in 1995, opened on September 29.
In 2000 installed restored organ, inauguration on October 28, 2000. In 2006 installed new larger organ in the apsida, inauguration on June 16, 2006.

Near-by stands a baroque bell-tower from 1594 (Italian architect Simon de Paret) with two bells - smaller (650 kg) "Sv. Ondrej (St. Andrew)" cast in 1510, and heavier (1100 kg) "Sv. Vaclav (St. Wenceslas)" from 1545.

Christ's Birth Church

Attached to the Capuchin Monastery, Kupkovo namesti
Founded by Ludvig Colloredo from Wallsee in 1673. Constructed in early baroque style between 1676-1678 by Italian architect Bernard Mineli
In the nearby ambulatory there are 14 images of Stations of the Cross painted by J. V. Bergel (Vienna) about 1760.

Marian (Black Death) pillar

Dominates the main (Kupkovo) square. Created in 1718 by an Italian sculptor Giovanni Baptista Bulla. Staues: Virgin Maria Immaculata, St. Roch, St. Sebastian, St. Karel Boromean, St. Francis of Xavier.
Latin inscription: Venerationi Deiparae sine luem arcensis in hacce Statua perennis gratitudinis tesseram posuit Hieronymus in Colloredo, Comes atque Dynastiae hujatis toparcha. (i.e. I pay homage to the Immaculate Mother of God, defender from the plague, this statue sponsored by Jeronym of Colloredo, Earl and this demesne's Lord.)

The town cemetery

Several views to Opocno with menu in Czech, but you can overcome that. :-) Just click to "FOTO GALERIE"
Other views to Opocno and more info in Czech Other views to Opocno again with menu in Czech, Here click in the paragraph "Obrazky"

Images of more Opocno statues

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