On your right, look for a small gray chapel with a rounded “bubble” gable and a little dark wooden bell-turret on the roof, tucked between tall trees and two skinny evergreens.
So this is the Chapel of Saint Anne, sitting here on Peroutka Street... quietly doing what old buildings do best: surviving everybody’s “improvements.” It’s a protected cultural monument today and part of the local Roman Catholic parish under the Brno diocese, but its story starts way earlier, out on what used to be the suburb called Dolní Víska.
Before 1406, there was a monastery here, and with it a Gothic chapel. The monastery itself didn’t make it-between 1985 and 1988 it was demolished-but a piece of it still clings on: the sacristy on the north side. History has a brutal edit button sometimes.
The chapel kept getting rebuilt and even kept getting re-dedicated, which is a very polite way of saying it couldn’t make up its mind. First it was for Saint John, then in the 1600s it switched to Saint Mark, and since the 1700s it’s been Saint Anne’s place. Around 1715 or 1720, it got a Baroque makeover, including a new ceiling over the main space. The roof changed too-wood shingles out, fired clay tiles in, by 1853.
And here’s the fun part: look closely at the south wall and you can still catch traces of the older Gothic chapel-an outline of a stone doorway and a bricked-up Gothic window ghosting through the newer plaster. Even covered up, the past still shows through.
When you’re set, HC Žihadla Moravské Budějovice is about an 11-minute walk heading southeast.
