Churches and Palaces

A Great Love Story, The Singing Fountain, and Queen Anne’s Summer...

In March 1509, the not even three-year-old Louis Jagiellon was crowned King of Bohemia. When the golden St. Wenceslas diadem was placed on the...

Formerly, It Was a Backyard for Chickens and Pigs; Today, the...

The Church of Our Lady before Týn, on Old Town Square, the counterbalance of the dominating Town Hall with the astronomical clock, is the...

Meditation Garden, 27 Executed, and State Bankruptcy in 1623

Oasis in the Beating Heart of the City If you walk down Nerudova Street from the Castle and turn...

The Mirror Chapel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If you walk along the Charles Bridge from the Lesser Town to the Old Town and then on to the Old Town...

What Does the Seat of the Government of the Czech Republic...

A short distance from the Malostranská metro station and in sight across the river from the Faculty of Law building stands the...

Ocean Liner Over the Rooftops of Wenceslas Square

Let's be honest - anyone who hasn't spent at least one evening in the Great Hall of the Lucerna Palace can't say...

Hvězda Summer Palace and the Most Famous Battle in Czech history

Every Czech knows who was Charles IV, later called the Father of the Homeland. No wonder, he made his mark in Czech...

About the Church, Which is Really Huge Because Too Much Money...

To put it simply - in 863, the brothers Cyril and Methodius of Thessaloniki came to Moravia to spread Christianity and education....

About a Severed Hand and a Dead Painter

And the prayers worked. His wife and children died of the plague, but the painter was still painting. However, when he finished the painting, he fell dead to the ground and his soul went straight to heaven.

Church of St. Martin in the Wall and Two Legends

On the roof of the Church of St. Martin in the wall is a gargoyle - a figure of a little boy....

Municipal House

The Municipal House is today one of the most monumental Art Nouveau monuments in Prague. The King's Court, the seat of the Czech monarch,...

Powder Gate Tower

The Gothic Powder Tower is the beginning of the Royal Route leading to Prague Castle. The coronation processions of the Czech kings used to...

New Town Hall

In March 1348, King Charles IV issued the founding charter of the New Town of Prague. It was to include three market...

TV Tower in the Jewish Cemetery

The Žižkov Television Tower has a café 66 metres above the ground. Looking from this height, you can see the Old Jewish...

Sigismund Bell

Behind the gilded grille of the Great South Tower of St. Vitus Cathedral is the belfry, in which Sigismund, the largest Czech bell, is...

Victory Column

Right next to the St. Vitus Cathedral, in the third courtyard of Prague Castle, is a tall granite column - a truncated pyramid with...

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