Ten centuries of European architecture & heritage
The Church of the Sacred Heart was designed by Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik and constructed between 1928 and 1932. Plečnik had already successfully remodelled elements of Prague Castle at the behest of the founding president...
To reach the North Pole became a worldwide obsession in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The American Robert Peary’s arrival there on 6 April 1909 made international headlines, and could well be the...
Josef Mocker (1835-99) was the architect who, more than any other, embodied the spirit of the Gothic Revival in Bohemia. His vast legacy includes major additions to at least twenty existing buildings, among them St...
Jan Masaryk was born in 1886 at the Villa Osvěta in Vinohrady. The third child of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, Jan acted as ambassador to London from 1925, and as Foreign...
The steel and glass frontage of the Generali Insurance building (by the architect Martin Kotik, 1993-4) reflects the neo-baroque facade of the Deminka Palace hotel on neighbouring Škrétova street (1886).
A typical example of art nouveau ornamentation from the facade of one of the many historicist townhouses in the Vinohrady area.
A richly decorative neo-renaissance frieze adorns the facade of these Vinohrady apartments. The building, dating from 1903, is by the architect Gustav Papež. The rhyming motto reads ‘Kdo zde bude přebývati, ruč mu Pán Bůh...
One of two adjacent neo-renaissance properties with handsome double loggia balconies on Vinohradská. The street, and district, are named after the royal vineyards (Královské Vinohrady) which covered this part of Prague from the 14th century...
An exquisite example of an entrance doorway with neo-baroque detailing from the fashionable residential area of Vinohrady.
