Lány Chateau
The village of Lány, twenty miles from Prague, stands in a region of fields and forests used for hunting since at least the tenth century. But it was in 1587 that Emperor Rudolf II forged...
Tagged: neo-baroque
Výstaviště Exhibition Grounds
In 1791 a vast outdoor exhibition took place in Prague to mark the coronation (as King of Bohemia) of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. The celebrations included the first performance of Mozart’s penultimate opera,...
Ječná 519/34
This framed Mother and Child appears on the ornamental facade of a neo-baroque house in Prague’s New Town. The building, at the corner of the major thoroughfare Ječná (Barley Street), is home to a traditional...
Košická 229/23 & 71/21
A fine set of early twentieth-century apartments in Vršovice, near the border with Vinohrady. The style combines the architectural language of the neo-baroque with decorative elements of art nouveau.
Rytířská 406/10: Old Town Market Hall
Designed in 1893 by the architect Jindřich Fialka (who was to become the first director of the School of Industrial Design in Pardubice) this magnificent neo-baroque structure was ceremonially opened in February 1897 as the...
Most Legií: Bridge of the Legions
These copper-domed turrets, recently restored, were originally toll-booths for the nine-span stone bridge constructed between 1898 and 1901 and named after the first emperor of Austria, Franz I. Designed by the architect Antonín Balšánek to...
Prague Castle: Spanish Hall
Conceived in the late 1500s by the architect Giovanni Gargioli and completed in 1602-8 by Giovanni Maria Filippi, the Spanish Hall (Španělský sál) is one of the most impressive of Prague Castle’s state rooms. Named...
28. října 377/13
A highly ornamented doorway on one of Prague’s busiest shopping streets at the west end of Wenceslas Square. The name of the street (’28 October’), commemorates the founding of the newly independent state of Czechoslovakia...
Staroměstské náměstí 932/6: Ministry for Regional Development
The former Municipal Insurance Building in the Old Town Square. Designed in the neo-baroque style by the architect Osvald Polívka and constructed between 1899 and 1909, the building is now home to the Ministry for...
Anglická 336/21
A typical example of art nouveau ornamentation from the facade of one of the many historicist townhouses in the Vinohrady area.
