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...
The Only One Cubist Lamp in the World
One of the significant buildings in the
lower part of Wenceslas Square is the Baťa department store. If you stand in
front of it,...
Giraffe (Jaroslav Róna)
The Velvet Revolution brightened up the Czech public spaces, Prague included. It concerns both the cleanliness of the city and the colour...
Vinohrady Emmental Cheese?
The life of the Čapek brothers, writer Karel and painter Josef, was connected with the Vinohrady district of Prague. Josef Čapek had...
Children’s playground Kaštánek (Eva Kmentová, Olbram Zoubek)
From a concrete playground to the Memorial of the Victims of Communism.
The playground in Stromovka is the work...
Herds of Wild Horses in Letná (Alexandra Koláčková)
If you walk through
the park in Letná, you will find two rails in the ground within sight of the
National Technical Museum. The...
Table (Čestmír Suška)
What buildings can you see on Mariánské náměstí? Art Nouveau building of the New Town Hall. The Municipal Library of Prague with...
Winged Lion (Colin Spofforth), Memorial of the Second Resistance (Vladimír Preclík)
John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields, the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on...
Maria Theresa (Jan Kovářík, Jan Proksa)
Queen Maria Theresa, the only woman on the Czech throne, is known to almost everyone as the queen who established compulsory schooling...
Václav Havel and Ferdinand Vaněk’s Bench (Lea Dostálová, Petr Pištěk)
Prank birthday wish to Ferdinand Vanek, who in fact was dissident Vaclav Havel, that came out in the paid advertisment section...
Franz Kafka (Jaroslav Róna)
Speech made at Franz Kafka's memorial dedication
Dear friends!
While I was...
Heart for Václav Havel
Until 2016, it was a space bordered with the buildings of the National Theatre, its New Stage,...
Death-mask of Jan Palach (Olbram Zoubek)
The monument to Jan Palach at the place where he self-immolated is one of four places in Prague that commemorates the remembrance...
Jan Palach (Barbora Veselá, Čestmír Houska, and Jiří Veselý)
In the spring of 1968, it seemed that we could have at least some political change - it...
The Marian Column (Old Town Square, Staré město)
The Marian Column on
the Old Town Square was built in 1650 as an acknowledgment for the victory...
Havel`s Place (Bořek Šípek)
Havel’s Place is a memorial dedicated to Václav Havel. It comprises two chairs linked by a round table...
Idiom (Matej Krén)
Infinitely from 8 thousand of books. Or Idiom. It is also called the Column of Knowledge - a column of 8,000 books...
Yellow Penguins in Kampa
If you are standing in Kampa and looking towards the National Theatre, a row of 34 yellow penguins will probably catch your...
