Originally convent of the poor Clares and Minorite monastery was founded in 1233 - 1234 by King Václav I. and his sister St Agnes, abolished in 1782. In the convent we can find the most important and also one of the oldest Early Gothic building in Prague (churches of St Francis, St Salvator, St Mary Magdalen and St Barbara chaples, Calvary Passage, refectory, dormitory). It now provides a refuge for collections of the National Gallery and the Museum of Applied Arts.