Basilica of Saint Wenceslas, Smíchov
The township of Smíchov, on the left bank of the Vltava, was a centre of Christian worship from the earliest times. The first Carthusian monastery in Bohemia stood close to here, from its foundation in...
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Štefánikova 68/12: Portheimka
In 1722, the celebrated Prague architect Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer purchased a plot of land formerly held by the Jesuits, where his patron Count Jan Václav Michna already owned a substantial garden. Over the course of...
Na Václavce 175/46
This beautifully-decorated villa was designed in the early 1900s by the Smíchov-based architect František Kavalír, a pupil of Jan Kotěra. Its name ‘Na Klavírce’ records the farmstead Klavírka which previously stood here when the hill...
Kříženeckého nám. 322/5: Barrandov Film Studios
Perched on a rocky bluff on the west bank of the Vltava, the Barrandov studios were intended as the centrepiece of a broader plan – an entire art deco suburb designed to accommodate the burgeoning...
Carpathian Church of the Archangel Michael
The southern flank of Prague’s Petřín Hill is dominated by an extensive park created in the popular ‘English’ style for the sixth Prince Kinský between 1827 and 1831. Near the summit of the wooded hill...
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...
Zborovská 1204/10
Where these apartments now stand, there was once open ground, sloping down to the river from the nearby house built by the baroque architect Kilián Ignac Dientzenhofer. Later there came a church, and finally in...
Lesnická 1155/8
This flying art nouveau figure from 1907 looks like an allegorical representation of vanity: she is holding a mirror after all, and her floating cloak seems to be impossibly thin and insubstantial. But the clue...
Náměstí 14. r̆íjna 83/15: Smíchov market hall
The market hall of Smíchov — the industrial suburb on the left bank of the Vltava — was built between 1906 and 1909, along with the adjacent town hall. Both buildings are by the architect...
Mělnická 624/4
One of the most commonly-found motifs of the art nouveau period is the combination of a representative female head surrounded by branches and leaves of the linden tree. This collection of national symbols took on...
