The former church is currently used for exhibiting modern art during summer season while the cloister building has served as a day hospital for disabled fellow-citizens since 2007.
The Glass Pavilion in Klatovy, with its more than 500 exhibits, represents the largest European collection of the Lötz Glass Factory production accessible to the public.
The official date of the arrival of Jesuits in Klatovy was 11 March 1636. First, they built a mission station in Klatovy, and later a dormitory, a church and a seminary.
Catacombs under Jesuit Church were created as a result of conversion work performed in the basements of original burghers´ houses that had stood there before the construction of the church.
This building in Art Nouveau style was erected in the years 1905 – 1907 as the municipal saving bank, according to a design by the architect R. Štěch from Pilsner.
They were silent witnesses of the economic expansion period, the most important one in this royal town´s history, brought about in the 16th century by hops cultivation and busy trade traffic along the way to Bavaria.
