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1. Hostýn Lookout Tower – Hostýn - Stations of the Cross loop from Chvalčov

6.87km

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Jiří 🇨🇿

July 12, 2024

The original chapel around the modified water spring was built in 1658 by Jan Rottal. Expanded in 1700. In 1748, its extensive reconstruction was carried out, a cellar with several water outlets was built under the chapel. The spring is said to have miraculous healing effects. Its last major reconstruction took place in 2003-2007

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Jiří 🇨🇿

January 14, 2025

The Water Chapel is an integral part of Hostýn. It was built in 1700 by the Bystřice parish priest Tomáš Provazník, near a spring that gushes out of a rock on the western slope of Hostýn.

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Jiří 🇨🇿

January 14, 2025

Legend has it that a spring gushed out of a rock in that place in 1241 to save Christians besieged by the Turks.

The spring became a symbol of protection and refreshment for pilgrims. It also had a healing reputation, and belief in the miraculous power of Hostýn water has deep roots among the people to this day.

The spring is visited by various Moravian people: Hanáci, Vlachs, Slovaks, who wash their sick limbs with the miraculous water.

The spring, together with the water chapel, was called Moravian Lourdes and compared to the French Lourdes in southwestern France at the foot of the Pyrenees, where the Virgin Mary appeared in 1558. The Moravian Lourdes are, however, much older. Holy and truly miraculous water has been begged by Mother Hostýnská for the Moravians from the spring from the rock below the embankment for more than 700 years.

The Water Chapel was also called the Well Chapel in the past.

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Hostýn Water Chapel

1. Hostýn Lookout Tower – Hostýn - Stations of the Cross loop from Chvalčov

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