Staroměstské náměstí: Jan Hus Memorial
This monumental bronze of the religious reformer Master Jan Hus – flanked by victorious troops of the 15th century Hussite wars but also by the exiled protestants of the 17th century Thirty Years’ War –...
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28. října 378/15: The Golden Hive
Two separate mediaeval houses stood here at the lower end of Wenceslas Square until the year 1572, when the Betengl (or Wettengl) family had them joined together and substantially enlarged. In 1621, the property was...
Vodičkova 710/31: U Myšáka
In 1922, the original neo-renaissance building by Otto Ehlen (1883) was refaced in the prevalent cubist style favoured by architects such as Josef Gočár and Pavel Janák. Although these two famous names were consulted on...
Náměstí Jana Palacha 79/1: Rudolfinum
In 1885, the Böhmische Sparkasse (Czech Savings Bank) commissioned the architects of the National Theatre, Josef Zítek and his pupil Josef Schulz, to design a new art gallery and concert complex on an undeveloped riverside...
Karlův Most: Charles Bridge
In 1170, King Vladislav II of Bohemia commissioned a stone bridge connecting the Old Town and Malá Strana. Built just downstream of the present structure, the surviving buttress of the former bridge can still be...
Na poříčí 1072/15: Hotel Imperial
The Hotel Imperial was built on the site of the former Black Eagle in 1913-14 by Jaroslav Benedikt. The interior of its late art-nouveau café is covered in hand-made majolica tiles from the Rakovník ceramic...
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...
Ovocný trh 567/15: U České orlice
‘Mír a štěstí buď pod touto střechou’: ‘May peace and happiness reign under this roof’ AD 1897. The House of the Bohemian Eagle (U České orlice) stands in the historic fruitmarket, near to the House...
Church of Our Lady before Týn
Close to the mediaeval merchants’ courtyard known as the ‘Týn’ (the word comes from the same root as the English word ‘town’), the gothic masterpiece of the Church of Our Lady dominates the Eastern side...
Staroměstské náměstí 604/14: Týn School
The building directly in front of the well-known church of Our Lady before Týn in Prague’s Old Town Square (part of which is visible in the background) was originally a school, formed from the amalgamation...
