Geliv

The village of Želiv is located about 10 km west of the town of Humpolce at an altitude of 495 m. The local monastery is one of the three oldest monasteries in our country and belongs to the best-preserved medieval complexes in Bohemia.
The monastery was founded together with the monastery church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the first half of the 12th century on a high promontory surrounded on two sides by the rivers Želivka and Trnava. Originally, the male order was based here…