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If you walk down Wenceslas Square from the National Museum, you will walk all the way down to Můstek....

A monumental neoclassical building of the Faculty of Law of Charles University (the National Museum building on Wenceslas Square is...

Until July 1420, it was an ordinary hill called Vítkov after the Prague burgher Vítek of the Hill, who had his vineyards here. But then the hill became the scene of a great battle of the Hussite armies against the Crusaders. And the Hussites were commanded by one of the most famous Czech warlords of all time, Jan Žižka.

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,...

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

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

Škroupovo náměstí (Škroup`s Circus) in Žižkov could be an ordinary Prague square. Interesting in that it is, as one of the few in Prague,...

Today's thirty-somethings and younger people know only from stories what "book Thursdays" were. That is, in the days before November 1989, new books were...

Malé náměstí (Small Square) or Malý rynek (from the German Kleiner Ring; "rynek" is the archaic Czech name for a square) is a small...

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

Near Prague`s Railway Bridge, there is something on the Vltava embankment that most people in Prague consider "such strange clock". In fact, it's a...

If you enter the Charles Bridge from the Old Town side and walk in the middle of the path, you step on a...

The Memorial to the Victims of Communism at the foot of Petřín is the work of sculptor Olbram Zoubek and was unveiled in May...

Everyone knows Zlatá ulička (the Golden Lane) at Prague Castle. The word "ulička" is a diminutive of the word "ulice", i.e. street. Castle has...

When Miloš Forman decided how to make the movie Amadeus (1984), which later won 8 Oscars, he insisted that the film be shot in...

One of the significant buildings in the lower part of Wenceslas Square is the Baťa department store. If you stand in front of it,...

Is there any former student of the Prague Faculty of Arts who would like to walk its corridors with us during the Christmas calm?