The Chapel of St Wenceslas is located within the St Vitus Cathedral in Prague and is home to the relics of the saint.
The room was built by Peter Parler between 1344 and 1364. The lower part of the walls are wonderfully decorated with over 1300 semi-precious gemstones and paintings about the Passion of Christ dating from the original decoration of the chapel in 1372-1373. The upper part of the walls have paintings about the life of St Wenceslas. In the middle there is a Gothic statue of St Wenceslas created by Jindrich Parler (Peter's nephew) in 1373.
Unfortunately the chapel of St Wenceslas is not open to the public but it can be viewed from the doorways.
A small door with seven locks in the south-western corner of the chapel of St Wenceslas leads to the Crown Chamber containing the Bohemian Coronation Jewels.
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