The Charles Bridge across the Vltava river which joins together the Old Town with the Lesser Quarter is considered to be the most famous Prague monument. It was founded on July 9th 1357 and built during the reign of Charles IV in place of the Judith Bridge which had been destroyed during a flood in 1342.
The Charles Bridge measures 520 metres...
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The Church of St Nicholas in the Lesser Quarter in Prague is the highlight of Jesuit architecture from the Baroque period. It was built in the location of an older Gothic church and its construction took nearly 60 years. The church was designed by the best Baroque architects of Prague – Kryštof Dientzenhofer and later on his son...
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The building housing the fomer Ceremonial Hall and mortuary of the Old Jewish Cemetery was built in a pseudo-Romanesque style in 1911-12 to a design by architect J. Gerstl. As part of the Jewish Museum, the Ceremonial Hall of the Prague Burial Society Hevrah Kaddishah (founded in 1564) later became an exhibition venue.
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History
The history of the Old Town Hall began in 1338, when King John of Luxembourg granted Prague’s Old Town the right to establish its own administrative centre. The original basis for the town hall became the gothic house of the wealthy merchant Wolflin of Kamen, for whom a stately tower was built in 1364. The Old Town Hall is...
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Part of the Lesser Quarter fortifications in Prague, built during the years 1360-1362 by Emperor Charles IV, is called the Hunger Wall.
This 4-4,5 metres high and 1,8 metres wide argillite wall, which used to have 8 towers, originally connected Újezd with Strahov and Pohořelec.
The name of the wall is supposed to reminds us of the famine...
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The first Prague Baroque summer villa was built between 1679-1696 by the French architect and painter Jean Baptist Mathey (also sometimes called Matheus Burgundus). His participation on the construction of the summer palace is documented from 1685, up till then Domenico Orsi led the building work. Worth noting is the large oval shaped outdoor...
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The National Theatre in Prague is a symbol of Czech national revival. In 1852 a building site on the corner of the Vltava embankment and Národní Street (formerly Ferdinandova) was acquired from the proceeds of a collection. In 1862 the back area of this plot was used for the construction of the so-called Prozatimní divadlo...
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After his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1138, the Bishop Henry Zdik of Olomouc had the idea of establishing a monastery of Canons Regular in Prague with assistance from the Bishops of Prague and the Czech rulers Soběslav II. and Vladislav II. This was the beginning of the Premonstratensian abbey, which left a permanent trace in the Czech...
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