St Bartholomew’s Church has early Gothic wall paintings with astronomical subjects: the Sun, the Moon and, notably, a solar eclipse. A stone bearing a relief of a skull and crossbones, probably from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, is built into the base of the staircase beside the tower.
Location and map
- Place
- Pošná
- Municipality / starting point
- Pošná
- District / region
- Pelhřimov
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 4 km SE of Pacova
St Bartholomew’s Church has early Gothic wall paintings with astronomical subjects: the Sun, the Moon and, notably, a solar eclipse. A stone bearing a relief of a skull and crossbones, probably from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, is built into the base of the staircase beside the tower.
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 268
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.