Within the next cycle of meetings with PhDr. Věra Smolová we will learn about the history associated with Svatá Hora. Of course, you will not miss the tasting ..The talk with the screening will always be at 5.30 pm in the refectory of the monastery. Admission 150 CZK including tasting, capacity 90 seats. Please reserve your seats in the shop on Svatá Hora or by calling 318 429 943.Věra Smolová studied archives at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. In 1985 she joined the Prague City Archives. Since 2003 she has been working at the State District Archives in Příbram, which she has headed since 2009. For almost three decades she has been cooperating with the National Heritage Institute on transcriptions of castle inventories. In 2011 she participated in the publication of the edition Liber vetustissimus Antiquae civitatis Pragensis, which was created under the supervision of Professor Hana Pátková. She mainly focuses on the regional history of the Příbram region, for which she has published a number of articles and monographs (Mills and People of the Silver Mountains, Mine Directorate in Příbram). She has contributed to several collective monographs (Příbram, Synagogue in Příbram, Renaissance residence of the Lords of Hradec in the oldest inventories of the Jindřichův Hradec Castle, Petrovice u Sedlčany).In 2005 she published an edition and translation of the German biography of Jakub Jan Ryba under the title My Life and Music. In 2015, as part of the cooperation on the overall revitalization of the pilgrimage site Svatá Hora, she began to focus intensively on its history. In 2018, she prepared an exhibition, The Fire of St. Hora on April 27, 2018 and its Reconstruction, for which she subsequently published a book. She published a book continuation of the stories of the Příbram mills in the Baroque era and other publications.Together with architectural historian Ing. arch. Michal Profant, she is preparing a modern publication about Svatá Hora.
