Martinská 8: Church of Saint Martin-in-the-Wall
Saint Martin’s is one of the oldest churches in Prague. An original romanesque temple of 1178 (parts of which survive) was incorporated into the defensive wall of the Old Town some time in the 13th...
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Hradčanské náměstí 56/16: Archbishop’s Palace
Commissioned by Jan Bedřich von Waldstein, and built between 1675 and 1679 by Francesco Lurago on the site of the existing Bishops’ Palace, the imposing baroque structure with its prominent central bay and impressive pavilion...
Cathedral of Saint Vitus: South Tower and Golden Gate
The south range of the Cathedral of Saint Vitus in Prague Castle is dominated by the so-called Golden Gate (Zlatá Brána). This ceremonial facade, commissioned by Charles IV in 1370, is covered in a priceless...
Malostranské náměstí: Cathedral of Saint Nicholas
The monumental cathedral of Saint Nicholas was begun in the late 1670s as the centrepiece of the recatholicization of Bohemia following the Thirty Years’ War. In 1702 the great Prague architect Kryštof Dientzenhofer took over...
Svatoslavova 589/9
‘Ave Maria!’: bas-relief in a geometric art-nouveau frame adorns the facade of this townhouse in the southern suburb of Nusle.
Maiselova 41/21
The ‘asanace’ (or cleansing) of the old Jewish town of Prague began in earnest in 1895. Synagogues were preserved, but six hundred ordinary dwellings were destroyed in favour of a ambitious new streetplan. Central to...
Vršovické náměstí 84/6: Church of Saint Nicholas
A romanesque chapel dedicated to Mary Magdalene is recorded as having stood on this site in the then village of Vršovice in the year 1028. By 1374 the chapel had been been widened, renovated in...
Příběnická 942/1
A relief depicting Cecilia, patron saint of music, seated at a chamber organ, appears on the southwest-facing wall of this house in Žižkov.
Pařížská 97/15
Saint George raises a triumphant sword from the third storey of this neo-renaissance mansion on fashionable Paris Street. The house was constructed in 1905 to 1906, to a plan by the architect Jiří Justich, by...
Haštalské náměstí 1041/6: Ossuary of the Holy Trinity
The Square of St Castulus (sv. Haštal), a quiet backwater of Prague’s Old Town, contains several notable buildings, including a Baroque-period ossuary (bone-house) dedicated to the Holy Trinity, on whose south-facing wall this fresco appears....
