Tomášská 26/4: The Golden Stag
The Golden Stag, on St Thomas’s Street, was built for the moneylender Jan Kašpar Friedrich in 1726. The depiction of Saint Hubert – who experienced a divine revelation when Christ appeared to him between the...
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Táborská 317/65
The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was established in 1920, taking as its guiding principle the teachings of the 15th century reformer Jan Hus. The symbol of the chalice denotes his belief that the eucharist should be...
Sezimova 402/11
An extremely fine local example of art nouveau, with the inscription ‘A.D. 1905’. The house, by the architect Antonín Fric, is to be found in the southern district of Nusle.
Staroměstské náměstí 606/12: Golz-Kinský Palace
The Golz-Kinský Palace in the Old Town Square, nowadays part of the National Gallery, is a superb example of late baroque style. In its courtyard Hermann Kafka had his haberdasher’s shop, and the palace housed...
Křižovnické náměstí: Church of the Holy Saviour
The Jesuit church of the Holy Saviour (Sanctus Salvator) was originally constructed in 1578. From 1638 to 1648, it was remodelled in the baroque style by the youthful Italian architects Carlo Lurago and Francesco Caratti,...
Všehrdova 437/15
The House of the Red Cross was built in 1761 on the site of an earlier building on a plot close to Kampa island. Having fallen into a state of disrepair, it underwent extensive restoration...
Karlova 175/3: U Zlaté Studny
The facade of the 16th-century house ‘U Zlaté Studny’ (The Golden Well) was decorated in 1701 with these reliefs by Jan Oldřich Mayer. Clockwise from top left: Saint Wenceslas, Saint John of Nepomuk, Saint Roch,...
Trojická 397/18: U Prasátků
Art-nouveau religious murals by Adolf Liebscher adorn the decorative facade of this house in Prague’s New Town. Constructed in 1894 by and for Rudolf Tereba, the house is known as ‘U Prasátků’, after a former...
Husitská 191/47
A statue of Jan Hus, the 15th century church reformer whose execution in 1415 sparked the Hussite wars. This street is named after his followers, the Hussites; and the district through which it runs, Žižkov,...
Havelská 3/511: U zlaté váhy
The 18th century painting of the archangel Michael has below it the following rhyming prayer: ‘Ochraňuj, Bože, dům tento drahý / který se zove U zlaté váhy’: ‘We pray that Thy protection never fails /...
