Svatý Jan is a municipality and village in Příbram District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Administrative division Svatý Jan consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):
Svatý Jan (84) Bražná (46) Brzina (14) Drážkov (112) Hojšín (64) Hrachov (248) Řadovy (36) Skrýšov (78)
Etymology The name Svatý Jan means 'Saint John' in Czech.
Geography Svatý Jan is located about east of Příbram and south of Prague. It lies in the Benešov Uplands. The highest point is the hill Černá skála at above sea level. The Vltava River forms the northern municipal border. The Brzina Stream flows through the municipality into the Vltava.
History Svatý Jan is among the youngest villages in the region. There was a spring of water in what is today the village's area, which people considered to be healing, and a chapel was built near it in 1705. The first written mention of Svatý Jan is from 1720.
Demographics
Transport The I/18 road (the section from Příbram to Sedlčany) runs through the northern part of the municipality.
Sights
The main landmark of Svatý Jan is the Church of Saint John of Nepomuk. It was built in the Baroque style in 1760–1764.
A historical landmark of Skrýšov is the Skrýšov Castle. It was originally a Renaissance fortress, rebuilt into a small Baroque castle around 1760. Today it is privately owned and inaccessible.
There is a valuable Jewish cemetery in the forests near Řadovy. Most of the Baroque and Neoclassical tombstones date from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The oldest legible tombstone is from 1681.
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