To the Airport Every Ten Minutes
From time to
time, the Prague City Council has considered whether the city needs Masaryk
Station and whether these valuable plots of land in...
Fountain with non-existent animals
Peace Square is
one of the most beautiful squares in Prague - and not only thanks to the Church
of St. Ludmila or the...
Half-Timbered House
When you get off
the Malostranská metro stop and wait for the tram that will take you to the
Malostranské Square or even one...
Heydrich’s Curve
The castle in
the photo is the clinic of pneumology and thoracic surgery at the Bulovka
Hospital. The grey...
Faculty of Law (Charles University)
A monumental
neoclassical building of the Faculty of Law of Charles University (the National
Museum building on Wenceslas Square is...
National Memorial on the Vítkov Hill
Until July 1420, it was an ordinary hill called Vítkov after the Prague burgher Vítek of the Hill, who had his vineyards here. But then the hill became the scene of a great battle of the Hussite armies against the Crusaders. And the Hussites were commanded by one of the most famous Czech warlords of all time, Jan Žižka.
Municipal House
The Municipal
House is today one of the most monumental Art Nouveau monuments in Prague. The
King's Court, the seat of the Czech monarch,...
Powder Gate Tower
The Gothic
Powder Tower is the beginning of the Royal Route leading to Prague Castle. The
coronation processions of the Czech kings used to...
New Town Hall
In March 1348, King Charles IV issued the founding charter of the New Town of Prague. It was to include three market...
Škroupovo náměstí (Škroup’s Circus)
Škroupovo
náměstí (Škroup`s Circus) in Žižkov could be an ordinary Prague square.
Interesting in that it is, as one of the few in Prague,...
Štorchův dům (Štorch’s House)
Today's thirty-somethings and younger
people know only from stories what "book Thursdays" were. That is, in
the days before November 1989, new books were...
U Rotta (House at the Rott)
Malé náměstí (Small Square) or Malý rynek
(from the German Kleiner Ring; "rynek" is the archaic Czech name for
a square) is a small...
Victory Column
Right next to the St. Vitus Cathedral, in
the third courtyard of Prague Castle, is a tall granite column - a truncated
pyramid with...
Limnigraph at Výtoň
Near Prague`s Railway Bridge, there is
something on the Vltava embankment that most people in Prague consider
"such strange clock". In fact, it's a...
St. Wenceslas Column
If you enter the Charles Bridge from the
Old Town side and walk in the middle of the path, you step on a...
Memorial to the Victims of Communism
The Memorial to the Victims of Communism
at the foot of Petřín is the work of sculptor Olbram Zoubek and was unveiled in
May...
Golden and Silver Street
Everyone knows Zlatá ulička (the Golden
Lane) at Prague Castle. The word "ulička" is a diminutive of the word
"ulice", i.e. street. Castle has...
