You don’t have to travel across the whole of Europe to see the coronation jewels of the Luxembourg rulers. It is enough to visit the Minorite Monastery in Prague, where in 1311 the wedding celebration of John of Luxembourg and Elisabeth of Přemysl took place. This event symbolically marked, not only for the Czech estates, the end of four hundred years of Přemyslid rule and the beginning of more than 120 years of the Luxembourg dynasty.

THE CORONATION JEWELS OF THE LUXEMBOURG RULERS

The exact scientific replicas (facsimiles) of the crowns were commissioned from Jiří Urban of Turnov for the exhibition The Magical Luxembourgs, which has been a travelling exhibition since 2015. On display are the Czech Crown of St. Wenceslas, preserved in St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle; the Crown of the King of the Romans from the treasury of Aachen Cathedral in Germany; the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, whose original is kept in the Imperial Treasury at the Hofburg in Vienna; the Iron Crown of the Lombard Kings, permanently exhibited in the cathedral treasury in Monza, Italy; and the Holy Crown of Hungary from the Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest.

This exhibition forms part of the major exhibition The Magical Luxembourgs.

Tickets can be purchased online HERE or directly at the monastery information desk, Malá Štupartská 6, Prague 1.

WE THANK THE PATRONS OF THE EXHIBITION