A single-nave Baroque church located in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Originally, the site of the current Church of St. Michael was occupied by a Gothic church attached to a Dominican monastery. Numerous fires and the devastating Thirty Years' War caused significant damage to the church, necessitating reconstruction between 1673 and 1699. The church was practically completely rebuilt. Only the bell tower (now open to tourists) and half of the sacristy vault remained from the previous church. The architects of the reconstruction project, Giovanni Pietro Tencalla and later Domenico Martinelli, gave the building a distinctive Baroque character with a richly decorated interior. The new church was crowned with three domes, the largest of which measures 35 meters, making it the first domed structure in Moravia.
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