When Saint John of Nepomuk was martyred, legend claims that five stars appeared above his head. So in 1721, when Czech architect Jan Santini Aichel designed a church to commemorate the Bohemian clergyman, he gave it a fivefold symmetry: The circular nave is surrounded by five pairs of columns and five oval domes alternating with ogival apses. The primary altar (one of five) bears five angels supporting a heavenly sphere decorated with five stars.

It’s beautiful even from above — the surrounding ring cloister is divided into 10 sections by five chapels and five gates: