Meditation Garden, 27 Executed, and State Bankruptcy in 1623
Oasis in the Beating Heart of the City
If you walk down
Nerudova Street from the Castle and turn...
Why Salvador Dali Kissed the Czech Sculptor’s Dirty Hands and About...
It's just a
hard-to-believe story - the Czech sculptor Josef Nálepa was the first sculptor
in the world whom Salvador Dali sat for and...
Then the Ground Opened, and the Carriage with the Horses and...
The words of the headline are a legend about the end of the life of Princess Drahomíra, the...
About the Threat of Bombing Prague Castle and the Curse of...
During the war,
the Czech President was the lawyer Emil Hácha, who held the office with the
knowledge of a voluntary sacrifice for his...
27 Executed, 28 Crosses, and One Pardon a Second Before Death
27 men were
executed in the Old Town Square. On the pavement in front of the Old Town Hall,
there are several rows of...
The Only Cubist Newsstand in the World
(Photo: By Pablo Picasso - Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Defunct Professions, the Names of Which Even Many Czechs Have Trouble...
In the past, the
area around the Railway Bridge was associated with professions whose names are
difficult to pronounce even for many Czechs -...
The Oldest Escalator in Central and Eastern Europe and a Funicular...
In Na Poříčí Street there were houses called U bílé labutě (At the white swan) as early as the 17th century. In...
Civic Swimming Pool and the Seat of the Government of the...
The short video shows Miloš Forman with 90-year-old Ferdinand Platil, a retired...
St. John of Nepomuk (Jan Nepomucký) and Fulfilled Wishes
There is a small brass point - it is an energy point, when you step on it, you feel the warmth and energy entering your body. And in order for your wish to come true, you have to have your hands on the lattice and the stars and at the same time, you have to step on the energy point with your right foot.
Ferry Výtoň
Prague public
transport also includes six ferry lines. Some run all year round, some from
April to October. The boat intervals are from 10...
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.
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...
Miloš Forman, Amadeus and Golden Armchairs
When Miloš Forman decided how to make the
movie Amadeus (1984), which later won 8 Oscars, he insisted that the film be
shot in...
The Story of Bruncvík and his Faithful Lion
At the end of the 18th century Prague
still had four independent districts - the Old Town, the New Town, the Lesser
Town and...
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...
