The area of Velký and Malý Blaník is associated with the Celtic settlement in the Hallstatt and Latenian periods (5th to 4th centuries BC). Thus, even the Little Blaník could have served as a place of pagan ceremonies. The location of a wooden castle from the Hussite era, burnt down around 1420, is not excluded,[4] although even this assumption, based on the findings of shards, tiles, etc., is not unequivocally proven archaeologically.
People made pilgrimages to Malý Blaník, usually dedicated to Mary Magdalene, as evidenced by a written source from 1543 by the Vlašić priest Václav Rosa, and this tendency led to the building of a chapel dedicated to Mary Magdalene.[9] At the top of the mountain, the partially preserved Baroque chapel of St. Mary Magdalene still stands, but inside it grows the monumental tree of the Great Monk, the spruce Picea abies, also called the Parson.[5]
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