Nerudova 233/47: U dvou slunců
Devotees of Pablo Neruda, the Chilean Nobel Prize winner, will be aware that he adopted his pen-name in homage to the earlier Czech poet Jan Neruda, who spent his formative years at the baroque House...
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Malostranské náměstí 4/27: Memorial to Ernest Denis
‘Ernest Denis, French-born Slavic scholar and historian, lived in Prague from 1872-1874’. As the pre-eminent French expert in Czech history, Nîmes-born Ernest Denis was one of the key supporters of the First Republic (1918-1938). He...
Vlkova 800/31: Memorial to Jaroslav Seifert
The plaque below the bust tells that ‘From 1907 to 1912, the Czech poet and Nobel Prize winner Jaroslav Seifert attended this school’. The school in question, in the district of Žižkov, is now named...
Uhelný trh 526/6
The memorial plaque on this building in Uhelný trh (Coalmarket) is of particular interest to historians of Czech culture and language. ‘Here stood the house of the Golden Cross, where, on 4 February 1719, the...
Václavské náměstí 832/19
Currently the home of the H&M fashion store in Wenceslas Square, this grand neo-baroque building by Friedrich Ohmann and Osvald Polívka was at one time the headquarters of the Trieste-based insurers Assicurazioni Generali. Between 1...
Korunní 1151/67: Memorial plaque to František Kvapil
The plaque on this building in Prague’s Vinohrady district commemorates František Kvapil (1855-1925), Czech poet and translator of Polish literature.
